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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January 12, 2010
Automatic memory management, a.k.a Garbage Collection, is one of the main benefits of a managed object-oriented language like Java. But in many ways its presence has made us lazy and sloppy: we don't care about generating garbage because "objects ar...
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It's exactly one year ago that I started to work for Sun. Nice! I wasn't sure that I will make the anniversary facing the merger with Oracle. Anyway, I learned a lot in this first year and I'm really looking forward to the next years at Sun (o...
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Yesterday, I released 0.42 and as seemingly always happens a bug was reported right
after that. So with that we're now on the road to the 0.42 Update 1 release. This
is release candidate 0.
Changes:
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JSF 2 introduces an EL variable flash. Anything you set persists for one post-redirect-get cycle. (In contrast, anything in the request scope is gone after a redirect.) A typical use of the flash is for messages. A managed bean method might put a me...
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Having
spent most of my life turning science fiction into reality, I'm incredibly amused by the recent
Blessing of the Plow service performed in London.
Another step in the journey:
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