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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March 2009
March 13, 2009
After the vigorous start of
week 1,
the pace of new proposals being sent to the list slowed:
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March 12, 2009
Last week I received notification that my JavaOne proposal for a birds-of-a-feather session on JFreeChart has been accepted. I agonised for a while before confirming my attendance, mainly because the recession has been giving me a good kicking thes...
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March 12, 2009
I just got back from the Java Posse Roundup 2009. It was our third year (blog entries from 2007, 2008), and therefore I can add "as usual" when I state that it was a wonderful time.
This year's topic was "developer productivity", which is obvio...
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March 12, 2009
Expanding on a few slides from my
JavaOne talk last year, here are a few tips to keep in mind when designing exception types.
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March 12, 2009
To date, there have been a few API changes to javax.lang.model.* in JDK 7.
Early in the release,
SourceVersion.RELEASE_7 was added to correspond to any new source-level changes coming in JDK 7
(6458819).
Eventually, there will be changes to su...
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March 12, 2009
I hope this article will help to scratch issues of software reliability. Brief discussion about established reliability practices and what has to be changed.
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March 12, 2009
Last year at VirtualBox was fun, but provided such a heavy load that I almost had no time to blog. Now let's fix this a bit. There are several almost detective stories of recent bug hunting in VBox core I'd like to share. They show level of complexi...
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March 11, 2009
Apologies for the recent blog silence for me. It's not that I've been slacking off. Quite to the contrary!
The biggest news is that I've changed teams: I'm now working on JavaFX! And more specifically, the designer tool.
If you don't know what...
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March 11, 2009
I finally implemented support for defining delegates in Java. The functionality will
be available in the next snapshot.
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March 10, 2009
The UTF-8 charset implementation (in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun) has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences, since the old implementation might be leveraged in security attacks. Since then I have been asked many ti...
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