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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March 16, 2010
category: Java Technology
There are times when things hurt so much that you feel urged to blog about them once solved. This is one of them.
Our company is using XSL heavily for reporting (generating vector charts...
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March 16, 2010
category: Developers
If you are living in San Francisco bay area, or if you are visiting the area for EclipseCon next week, make sure to come to Hudson Hackathon this Friday 3/19 and/or Saturday 3/20. The plan is to meet up, hang out, chat, hack code, and have fun. If y...
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March 16, 2010
category: Java Technology
Hello JUG Leaders & Champions....
I've been busy of late, but I wanted to let you all know that I landed safely with a new job at Adobe. I will be one of their new Community Managers working with several of their user group communities: ...
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March 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
During a session of Scala research for UCLA JUG, I sat back and took a look at all the languages that actually can be executed by a JVM (byte-code, other). Ada, Alef++, AspectJ, AWK, BeanShell, C, C++, Clojure, Cobol, ColdFusion, Common Lisp, Compon...
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March 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
There are several ways to enable user authentication for web based applications, like .htaccess files, plain tekst files, databases, LDAP, etc. They all have their pros and cons. In case a central, flexible solution is needed, either a database or LD...
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March 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
Here it is my second wish in the "Oracle" series... what about JavaFX Mobile? I've tried it several months ago and I've written a small application, blueBill Mobile, running on an HTC Diamond phone, that allows to browse a taxonomy of birds...
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March 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
This week's java.net Spotlight is on the GlassFish Jersey project. Jersey 1.1.5.1 was released last week, as reported by Paul Sandoz:
We have just released version 1.1.5.1 of Jersey, the open source, production quality, reference implementati...
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March 15, 2010
category: Developers
One of the changes to the Java programming language made back in JDK 5 was the introduction of
covariant returns, that is, the ability in a subtype to override a method in a supertype and return a more specific type. For example,
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March 14, 2010
category: Developers
In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter
wrote
about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases
were a bad approach to language design.
This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language.
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March 13, 2010
category: Java Technology
I am very fond of FindBugz (indeed it has found its way into the QA process of most projects I work on....). When visiting the site to check Eclispe 3.5.2 compatibility I found they were working on a new tool.
Indeed a very interesting tool.
Looks li...
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