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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December 2009
December 15, 2009
Eclipselink 2.0 includes an annotation processor for generating the static metamodel classes from your Entity classes for use with the Criteria API which is one of the new features in JPA 2.0.
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December 14, 2009
Learn about a new feature in Java EE 6 that makes defining data sources for relational database access easier and more portable.
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December 14, 2009
It's Jon Stewart, not John Stewart. I apologise. I actually *knew* as I wrote my previous post that there *something* wrong with it, but I was tired and couldn't spot it - and hit POST anyway. I don't usually do that. And names are important. S...
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December 13, 2009
Sometimes you may want to quickly generate graphs programmatically and view/analyze those. Examples include, inheritance/type relation diagrams of an object oriented program, function call graphs and any other domain specific graphs (reporting chai...
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December 13, 2009
One of the goals for JDK 7 is to get us to a modular platform. Getting there will be hard
as it's a very interconnected code base with many undesirable dependencies between APIs and
different areas of the implementation. These dependencies have b...
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December 11, 2009
In my unit tests I often want to know the name of the test that is executing. For example, I often want to have the golden file (expected test output) computed automatically from the testname. As another example in my JavaFX testing, I often genera...
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December 11, 2009
One of the many cool new features in Java EE 6, is support for the DataSourceDefinition annotation.
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December 10, 2009
Now be careful with this, but here is a simple bash shell script that will
do Mercurial hg commands on a forest pretty quickly.
It assumes that the forests are no deeper than 3, e.g. */*/*/.hg.
Every hg command is run in parallel shell processes, s...
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December 09, 2009
For the upcoming semester, I want to run a learning management system into which I can integrate an experimental feature for evaluating student programs. It needs to be open source so that I can modify it. I was first going to go with Sakai, which i...
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December 08, 2009
Frustrated of learning for exams I fixed/enabled an optimization for large fills, which I had implemented some time ago, but which wasn't working properly.The results are quite pleasing:At least for large operations Jules is now really close to duct...
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