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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February 2010
February 25, 2010
category: Java Technology
James Lorenzen had an excellent blog post about the importance of a descriptive commit comment. I can't agree more.
Unfortunately, I think getting better at leaving better commit messages take trial and error — the way I've learned i...
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February 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
On Twitter, I saw that an audio-only edition of Justin Kestelyn's February 16 Tech Cast Live interview with Mark Reinhold is now available. To see the interview as well as hear it, visit https://channelsun.sun.com/media/show/15028.
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February 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
On his home site, Jeff Friesen, author of 21 java.net articles, has posted an interesting little article titled Comic Books and Java. In the article, Jeff presents a Java application tha...
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February 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
As the final day of JAX London nears its close, it seems like a good time to browse the jaxlondon tweets to see what people have considered notable and quotable about the conference.
Unfortunately, I was not able to be in live attendance. I reall...
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February 24, 2010
category: Developers
When designing types to be reused by others, there are reasons to favor interfaces over abstract classes.
One complication of using an interface-based approach stems from defining reasonable behavior for the equals and hashCode methods, especiall...
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February 23, 2010
category: Developers
So, yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the first release of JFreeChart, and it slipped by without me noticing! I knew it was coming up, and even checked the exact date a few weeks back, but then on the day I had so much else to do. Life is l...
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February 23, 2010
category: Java Technology
Build Server Information radiators are an excellent, easy-to-implement way of getting people to pay attention to broken builds. But it pays to tailor them to your exact needs. This article is a short case study of how easy it is to set up an effectiv...
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February 23, 2010
category: Java Technology
Prior to a few days ago, when I thought about JDBC, I thought I was thinking about a problem that has been solved. Our latest java.net article, Has JDBC Kept up with Enterprise Requirements? by Jesse Davis, has eliminated that kind of thinking for me...
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February 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
Look beyond Type 4 architecture to address the latest requirements of the enterprise Java ecosystem.
Has JDBC Kept up with Enterprise Requirement...
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February 22, 2010
category: Developers
I should have blog about that sooner, but later is better than never.
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