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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September 2010
September 30, 2010
I have been at JavaOne since 1996, its inaugural year. In 1996, JavaOne was
colocated with the Software Development conference, which has since fallen on
hard times and vanished. But at the time, half of the exhibitors were from SD,
and the other ha...
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September 28, 2010
...in a twisted way. I didn't attend any of the sessions, I just wandered around in an obnoxious t-shirt. JavaOne attendees were friendly and chatty. OpenWorld attendees were confused. Oracle employees behaved like there was an invisible force f...
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September 27, 2010
Since I no longer work for Sun/Oracle, this blog is closed; please visit my new personal blog at http://tornorbye.blogspot.com .
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September 27, 2010
Oracle now owns Java. But how do they view it as a business?
As a Java Champion, I had some additional meetings at JavaOne which provide a slightly different take on this important topic. This also affects #bijava to some degree.
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September 24, 2010
It's time for a new adventure!
I joined Sun in 1996 and I've been here ever since -- including the Oracle acquisition six months ago. It's been a wonderful time. I've met many of the world's most talented engineers, I've had the chance to work o...
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September 24, 2010
Stephen Colebourne has a very interesting article on the Next Big JVM Language (NBJL). The comments are good too. (I was going to add this as a comment to his blog, but it was rejected as spam. Maybe jroller is onto something...)
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September 24, 2010
For all my latest blog posts, please visit fxexperience.com!
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September 23, 2010
Very soon now, the
OpenJDK7 sources
(including the source bundles)
and the
JDK7 binary bundles
will include changes to the values of the various "vendor" java properties and also the
Windows COMPANY file properties.
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September 23, 2010
I've decided to move my blog to a more permanent URL (I'm not sure how long blogs.sun.com will be around), and at the same time it would be nice to switch to a more feature-rich blogging platform. Therefore, effective immediately, the new url for m...
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September 23, 2010
This week I gave two talks at JavaOne. Here are my slides. On Monday Brian Goetz and I talked (again, as in 2009) about the future of the JVM in One VM, Many Languages. The room was full of attentive listeners.
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