September 18, 2009
Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe.
Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...
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September 17, 2009
Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...
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March 2009
March 31, 2009
Update: Added links to proposal for switch for all types and simple expressions and a link to a revised method chaining proposal.
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March 30, 2009
Today Intel announced its next generation server processors, the Xeon 5500 series, codename Nahalem. This processor has been on our radar for performance optimizations since 2007, and the Sun and Intel Java VM and Performance teams have pushed the ...
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March 28, 2009
There is a direct connection between the 'Sun vs Apache Harmony' dispute
and the lack of a Java SE 7 platform JSR.
Using newly available evidence I hope to shed new light on what that link is.
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March 28, 2009
In order to work with dynamic types, method handles, and invokedynamic I have made some provisional changes to javac as part of the Da Vinci Machine Project. (There is a full description for Project COIN; it's almost ready for publication, and I'll...
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March 27, 2009
There is a new CertificateRevocationException class in JDK 7 in the java.security.cert package that indicates that an X.509 certificate is revoked and also allows you to determine additional information such as the reason the certificate has been re...
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March 27, 2009
This blog explains the JCP IP process in pictures.
And how Sun have managed to use it to block Apache Harmony.
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March 27, 2009
Project Coin's fourth week saw continued lively traffic on the
mailing list. As the submission deadline approachs, a flurry of new proposals were sent in:
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March 27, 2009
As 0.40 is getting nearer, I need some help. This snapshot is pretty close to what
the first 0.40 release candidate is going to be. However, there is still something
missing. As part of this release cycle I wrote a custom implementation of...
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March 27, 2009
I wrote a little tool that generates META-INF/services from annotations. The beauty of this is that it runs from inside javac, so you don't need to tweak your build process.
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March 27, 2009
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Daily Challenge. On April 4, they are planning to break a record right here in Toronto.
If you are in the downtown area, there is another worth while reason to stop in at Second Cup across from Much Music for a cup ...
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