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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November 2010
November 06, 2010
Some thoughts on the Premium JVM and the benefits of freeing the JVM separate from Java SE.
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November 06, 2010
LIU Qi from Longsoon wrote up some OpenJDK MIPS port related information on the IcedTea wiki: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/MIPSPort. Go check it out if you own some MIPS hardware and want to help out.
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November 06, 2010
Some thoughts on the Premium JVM and the benefits of freeing the JVM separate from Java SE.
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November 05, 2010
The idea of the lazy Singleton Pattern is to initialize a static field only when needed and not during the initialization of the class. The code for that pattern is this one:
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November 04, 2010
The results of the JCP EC elections are now available. We are happy to see that two of our three nominations - Apache and Red Hat - were elected. Our third one - Hologic - was to our regret not....
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November 04, 2010
Today I received a comment on my previous blog post about the Oracle vs Google issue.
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November 04, 2010
Now that there is a plan proposed for JDK 7 (and JDK 8) it's worth a reminder that there are binary snapshots of JDK 7 available for those that want to try out the new features, or just see that existing code and applications still build and run wel...
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November 03, 2010
In developing GNU Classpath, one problem that was commonly encountered was that applications would assume that the user was running on the proprietary Sun (now Oracle) JDK. This would enter into the code as the use of internal sun.* and com.sun.* A...
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November 02, 2010
The JCP election are out. What do they tell us?
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November 02, 2010
There is an interesting article from theserverside that offer some interesting alternatives to the issue.
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