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 2010
January 18, 2010
In 19 days, I will be at FOSDEM. If you want to heard about JSR 292 and lambdas or DaVinci VM project, you can join us, it's free. ...
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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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January 12, 2010
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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January 12, 2010
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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January 12, 2010
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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January 12, 2010
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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January 11, 2010
JFreeChart is off to a great start in 2010 with two exciting new developments that I'm desperately trying to find the time to integrate into the JFreeChart sources. First, Gerrit Grunwald has been doing some stunning work on (amongst other things) ...
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January 11, 2010
Of late I seem to have entered a Twilight Zone game of Whack a Mole with the jdk tests.
It appears that the odds that a test can fail on some particular OS or machine, with or
without any jdk change is higher than I ever thought possible.
Very frus...
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January 11, 2010
This technical article describes how Java Card 3.0 technology
allows developers to create and deploy servlet applications on smart card devices.
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January 11, 2010
I've released
IKVM 0.42 to SourceForge. The binaries are identical to the ones in release
candidate 3.
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