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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July 28, 2009
NetBeans 6.7.1 was released yesterday, which in addition to a number of important bug fixes in various areas, also now includes support for JavaFX.
It looks very promising; the biggest problems I mentioned a couple of months ago are fixed. I no lo...
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July 28, 2009
In the past, I blogged about Cricket (the sport and not the insect!) in this space. Once angry reader questioned me why I was writing that here. I guess people read my Sun blogs only tech. stuff. That is fine. So, I've revived my twitter login. I'll...
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July 27, 2009
The real reason why JNLP file needs to know its own URL.
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July 27, 2009
If you (like me) are someone who actually enjoys contemplating the details of how languages turn into bytecodes and thence into wicked-fast machine code... If you lose sleep wondering about the joint future of programming languages and managed runt...
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July 27, 2009
For the LSM 2009, I attended to the presentation titled Firefox 3.5, HTML 5 and beyond.
Firefox 3.5, thanks to the involvement of the team in the normalization, supports already most of HTML 5 features (HTML 5 is not yet finalized). Thus, Firefox su...
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July 27, 2009
Showing that no rule is so broad as to not admit an exception, the apt tool and its associated API, com.sun.mirror.*,
are being deprecated in JDK 7.
The plan is to remove the tool and its API to the next major JDK release after JDK 7.
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July 24, 2009
JDK 7 build 66 which is the final build for Milestone 4 has been released!
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July 24, 2009
One of the new features of the XML Signature 1.1 specification, which is currently in draft review, is the addition of stronger cryptographic algorithms to the REQUIRED algorithms, such as the RSAwithSHA256 SignatureMethod algorithm. Additional RECO...
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July 24, 2009
For the LSM 2009, I attended to the presentation titled Apache UIMA, a robust software architecture for natural language processing.
UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), initially developed by IBM and for IBM (see the alphaworks ...
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July 23, 2009
For the LSM 2009, I attended to the presentation titled Open Source Development : A view from the trenches (Jajuk)
Bertrand Florat speaks about its experience with management of the Jajuk open source project, a Jukebox developed in Java with a Swing...
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