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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January 2011
January 26, 2011
category: Developers
Ive been doing some web development lately and when Amazon announced their Elastic Beanstalk Java EE PAAS, I decided to take it out for a spin. Its a good first release. The restriction to eclipse+tomcat makes me a little grumpy, but since Im just...
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January 25, 2011
category: Developers
Back for JDK 7 build 123, the language support for the Project Coins safe varargs feature was pushed; the time has come to update the libraries to take advantage of this feature.
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January 24, 2011
category: Developers
Oracle is nominating SouJava, the Brazilian Java User Group, to a seat in the JCP Executive Committee. SouJava is one of the oldest and largest Java User Groups in the world with 40,000 members and based in a region where...
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January 24, 2011
category: Developers
There
are hundreds of Java User Groups (JUGs) around the world with thousands of
passionate and committed members (see this
list and
this interactive
map)
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January 23, 2011
category: Java Technology
Once again, I will be running the Java Power Tools Bootcamp workshop again in the first half of 2011 in Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne and London.
As usual, there will be some great new and updated material, but the big news this time round is the la...
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January 22, 2011
category: Java Technology
It#039;s been a while since I#039;ve blogged last (ok, it#039;s been a year), but I recently came across a question that I have a little insight into, and I thought I#039;d tackle it briefly.
The question was simple: How do I test my JSF applicatio...
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January 22, 2011
category: Developers
Ignore computer science for a moment, including everything you know about programming languages. Think back to the math courses you took in school. There are many things in that space that are programming-language-ish, but missing from programmin...
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January 21, 2011
category: Java Technology
Today, I want to show you a way to implement method invocation with named parameters using JSRnbsp;292.
But before using JSRnbsp;292 API, we need a way to reflect the parameter names of any existing methods.
The problem is that java.lang.reflect does...
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January 21, 2011
category: Developers
Today, I want to show you a way to implement method invocation with named parameters using JSR 292.
But before using JSR 292 API, we need a way to reflect the parameter names of any existing methods.
The problem is that java.lang.reflect doesnt pr...
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January 21, 2011
category: Developers
Almost
two years ago now, in April 2009, Oracle announced its intention to acquire
Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Little did we know at the time that the
deal would not close until January 2010 due to lengthy anti-trust investigations
by...
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