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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April 2009
April 09, 2009
Prior to build 54, the official Linux
builds for OpenJDK7 and JDK 7 were built on Red Hat 2.1 Advanced
Server (32 bit) and SUSE 8 (64 bit). Starting with b54, Release
Engineering will use Fedora 9 for both the 32 and 64 bit builds.
Building on Fedo...
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April 09, 2009
As I mentioned in my previous post, JDK 6 introduced an extended cookie management API. The main class being java.net.CookieManagerwhich extends the abstract class java.net.CookieHandler. It is supplemented by java.net.HttpCookie, java.net.CookieSto...
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April 07, 2009
The Flubber application I described earlier has an old stop-watch style timer with second and minute hands:
Making the clock hand move was trivial using value binding and a rotation transform on the hand graphics object:
transforms: Rotate {
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April 07, 2009
There has been a lot of public comments about the modifications we've made to Harmony's java.util.TreeMap implementation. We've been working on it since I announced our use of the code last summer. Reliability and compatibility are our greatest ...
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April 07, 2009
String(byte[] bytes, String csn) and String.getBytes(String csn) pair (and their variants) have been widely used as the convenient methods for char[]/Stringbyte[] encoding/decoding whena) You don't want to get your hands "dirty" on the trivial decod...
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April 06, 2009
I describe my dilemma about the proper treatment of the do-while loop in an introductory computer science textbook. I want to position it as an advanced/optional topic, but reviewers want to give it equal billing with the while and for loop, even th...
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April 06, 2009
The eagerly anticipated (by some) first release candidate of 0.40 is ready!
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April 05, 2009
I've been gone from Sun for a little while now but of course I'm still interested in Java, and thankfully still have access to this java.net blog. Anyway the recent news about IBM pondering buying Sun has piqued my interest....
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April 05, 2009
If you're anywhere near
St Petersburg (the one with the
palaces, not the one with dolpins) come to the TechDays event we're running next week. My boss (Jeet Kaul - pronounced "Cool", and he is) will be there, along with a pile of experts on a wide ...
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April 03, 2009
This book of selected blog posts and articles focuses on native language issues, improving performance, Solaris OS tools, and more. It is also available online.
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