I did my share of Java bashing just a short while ago, so it is a bit ironic that just days afterwards the topic of the java binding for libcurl resurfaced, and now it seems both Günter and Patrick (libcurl hacker dudes) are working to get it in shape to actually again end up in a useful state.

At the time I write this, you can get the most bleeding edge info here in this curl-library posting.