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 24, 2010
Due primarily to JavaOne, the last java.net poll, which asked "What's your view of Java on the desktop?" ran for 11 days instead of the standard one week period. I was quite busy during JavaOne, and people were continuing to vote and post comme...
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September 23, 2010
Entry posted to my new blog.
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September 23, 2010
The biggest announcement - and the biggest surprise for many - of JavaOne 2010 was certainly Oracle's new plans for JavaFX 2.0... or, should we say, Swing 2.0?
The history of JavaFX has been contentious since its beginning, when it was clear tha...
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September 23, 2010
I was preparing a short post about that, but I've run into an InfoWorld comparison of the fourth major IDEs, so I can just quote it (emphasis is mine):
When Oracle acquired Sun earlier this year, there was considerable concern in the Java comm...
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September 22, 2010
Larry Ellison presented Oracle's vision of hardware and software fusion this afternoon, talking about servers, Solaris, Linux, Java, MySQL, and much more. Ellison said Oracle's research and development budget will exceed $4 Billion, "and wh...
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September 22, 2010
If you haven't been able to catch all the Oracle Technology Network Live streamed events that you've wanted to see, you can find archives of the live streams at the Oracle Media Network page. Click on the "Newest" tab, and as you scroll to ...
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September 22, 2010
Easyb is a powerful and elegent Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) tool based on Groovy. It excels at being light-weight, highly readable, and easy to use. Lately, I have been using it with great success in combination with Selenium 2/WebDriver Page ...
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September 22, 2010
I mentioned during my BOF at JavaOne a new component that is close to ready for moving into SwingX: JXScrollMap.
Part of the way that SwingX works is that members first join the incubator project. Members contribute ideas to the incubator, flesh them...
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September 22, 2010
Tori Wieldt interviewed Mark Reinhold (Chief Architect of the Java 7 Platform) this afternoon, in a talk that was streamed on Oracle Technology Network Live. Mark reiterated that "Plan B" is the Java 7 plan going forward -- a reduced Java 7 feature ...
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September 22, 2010
Well, this morning I delivered my talk and, as usual, now I'm more relaxed. Things tried really to go wrong as my power plug adapter (that I've been using until this morning in the hotel) refused to work (hey, it's just a mechanical th...
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