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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July 06, 2010
category: Developers
JDK 7 build 99 is available. Build 99 contains changes to add support for JSR 292 in C1 and C2 client and server JIT compilers on the SPARC architecture, updating HotSpot to version 19 build 03, as well as JSR 292 adjustments to method handle invoca...
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July 06, 2010
category: Developers
As a follow-up to the initial API changes to support automatic resource management (ARM) I wrote an annotation processor, CloseableFinder, to programmatically look for types that were candidates to be retrofitted as Closeable or AutoCloseable.
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July 06, 2010
category: Java Technology
At about 330 downloads and 150 active installs, the feedback I'm getting from blueBill Mobile customers is very small. It mostly comes from people in a birders' forum where I posted a notice about the app; while the feedback brought from th...
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July 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
Why not keep the Java Bus at the top of "the Week in Review" for one more week? The bus travelled to Washingon, DC and then on to Charlottesville, VA this past week. Oracle Technology Network Chief Justin Kestelyn hopped on the bus in Providence, RI...
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July 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
I was such happy when years back the JRE was extended by the Collections Framework. It's just so intuitive to use it, and provides virtually anything the average programmer needs. C...
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July 03, 2010
category: Java Technology
We're still at 50% of the year, but I find this statement from Elliot's blog fantastic:
... adding a commenting facility to a website is like handing out marker pens to everyone who enters a public toilet. The results are obvious, and wit...
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July 03, 2010
category: Java Technology
In my opinion, SQL Anyhwere is the best RDBMS I can think of. I can remember when we started distributing it in Germany back in the early 1990ies, as one of the first early adopters...
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July 02, 2010
category: Developers
New FAQ on details of the migration of content from Java.sun.com, SDN, BigAdmin, and other Sun sites to the Oracle Technology Network.
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July 01, 2010
category: Java Technology
In spite of the cool animation and glamour power of JavaFX, the largest usage of JavaFX will be for building “boring” enterprise software combined with some visualization. There is a dearth of resources exploring architecture options for ...
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