February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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September 23, 2010
category: Java Technology
The biggest announcement - and the biggest surprise for many - of JavaOne 2010 was certainly Oracle's new plans for JavaFX 2.0... or, should we say, Swing 2.0?
The history of JavaFX has been contentious since its beginning, when it was clear tha...
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category: Developers
Very soon now, the
OpenJDK7 sources
(including the source bundles)
and the
JDK7 binary bundles
will include changes to the values of the various "vendor" java properties and also the
Windows COMPANY file properties.
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category: Java Technology
I was preparing a short post about that, but I've run into an InfoWorld comparison of the fourth major IDEs, so I can just quote it (emphasis is mine):
When Oracle acquired Sun earlier this year, there was considerable concern in the Java comm...
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category: Developers
I've decided to move my blog to a more permanent URL (I'm not sure how long blogs.sun.com will be around), and at the same time it would be nice to switch to a more feature-rich blogging platform. Therefore, effective immediately, the new url for m...
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category: Developers
This week I gave two talks at JavaOne. Here are my slides. On Monday Brian Goetz and I talked (again, as in 2009) about the future of the JVM in One VM, Many Languages. The room was full of attentive listeners.
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category: Developers
In my recent post
I brought up the idea of a backwards incompatible version of Java.
I indicated that checked exceptions would be an obvious candidate for removal.
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