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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February 2009
February 22, 2009
So I downloaded the cpptasks for ant from
the ant-contrib site.
And it builds from the command line just fine with the latest ant, but
it won't build using the ant that comes with NetBeans, and it won't
build when loaded into NetBeans.
So why is t...
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February 22, 2009
For those of you who haven't seen the Harry Potter movies or read the books,
a House Elf is an obedient servant who must obey the orders of their masters.
They have their own special magical powers but are bound to their master until
freed with a p...
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February 20, 2009
Sun Microsystems' Ruud van der Pas recently gave an overview of OpenMP at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Check out the video and slides.
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February 20, 2009
To increase performance and assure scalability in your applications you need compilers that optimize your code and profiling tools that identify bottlenecks, hot spots, and memory access issues. Learn how the Sun Studio Thread Analyzer, Performance A...
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February 20, 2009
I missed attending and speaking at Sun Tech Days at Hyderabad due to a personal reason In fact, I prepared slides for a talk titled "JavaFX for Java, JavaScript programmers". This is much like my earlier language comparison blog entries such as Ja...
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February 20, 2009
There is an unsupported (read - can be removed in future without notice!) command line option with JavaFX compiler. If you run javafxc as
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February 20, 2009
I wrote an article: Shark, gcj, and HotSpot: A tale of three
code generators.
Article at http://www.advogato.org/article/1001.html
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February 19, 2009
It's well known that jar is a "little" slow:-) How slow? On my "aged" SunBlad1000, it takes about 1 minute and 40 seconds to jar the whole rt.jar in "cf0M" mode (no compress, no manifest), costs you a little more if in compress mode.
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February 19, 2009
If you've been curious what all that stuff in the hs_err_pid1234.log file, this is how you use it to understand how JVM crashed.
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