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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June 23, 2010
The Sun Performance Library delivers highly-tuned and parallelized scientific libraries for the newest Oracle Sun systems (SPARC and x86), enabling you to maximize application performance. This paper describes advanced features of the library for uni...
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June 21, 2010
Please fill out this brief feedback survey, it will take less than 5 minutes of your time! By participating in the Customer Feedback survey, you will have the opportunity to provide your feedback directly to the product team and influence future prod...
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June 21, 2010
JDK 7 build 98 is available. Build 98 contains a fix for building using Visual Studio 2010 and enables building for 64 bit Windows using gratis Windows 7.1 SDK 64 bit compilers. You can check out the list of changes for details, and get the source code.
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June 21, 2010
On June 21, 2010 the
source bundle
for OpenJDK 6 b20 was published.
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June 21, 2010
Despite being "blissfully unemployed", I've been remarkably busy. Some of my time has been taken up by job hunting, some by a fun geek project (more on that in a later post), but an awful lot has been taken up talking to people about life at Oracle...
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June 21, 2010
Running with the usual jtreg flags, "-a -ignore:quiet" in all repositories and adding "-s -ea -esa" for langtools, the basic regression test results on Linux for
OpenJDK 6 build 20 are:
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June 18, 2010
NetBeans 6.9 has been released.
There are important improvements for everyone here - whether you're a Java developer, JavaFX developer, Ruby developer, PHP developer, C++ developer, ... or all of the above :-)
Since I spend most of my time writi...
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June 16, 2010
The Project Lambda mailing list has been considering
exception transparency recently.
My fear with the proposal in this area is that the current proposal goes beyond what Java's
complexity budget will allow. So, I proposed an alternative.
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June 15, 2010
In various forums, recent discussion about Project Lambda have commented on, and often noted in dismay, the current syntax for lambda expressions in the initial prototype.
"Don't panic!" is advice as valid for work on language evolution as on any...
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June 15, 2010
Modern processors and systems provide myriad features and functionality that can dramatically accelerate application performance. However, applications must be properly compiled and tuned to effectively exploit this functionality and performance for ...
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