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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May 03, 2010
category: Developers
As
alluded to as a possibility previously, I'm happy to announce that improved exception handling with multi-catch and final rethrow will be part of an upcoming JDK 7 build. Improved exception handling is joining other Project Coin features avai...
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May 03, 2010
category: Developers
This paper targets developers interested to learn more about parallel programming and covers everything needed to get started. A very practical and pragmatic approach has been chosen, including many code examples. After having introduced and discusse...
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May 03, 2010
category: Java Technology
Performance: JavaFX Balls
As soon as I've got JavaFX 1.3 and NetBeans 6.9-beta, first thing I did was obviously running benchmarks, and the new update delivers on its promise. Let's first check JavaFX Balls (port of Bubblemark). I've l...
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May 03, 2010
category: Java Technology
This Wednesday evening (May 5th) I have the pleasure of being invited to talk at the Canberra Java Users Group, where I will be giving a talk entitled "Real Developers Don't Need Unit Tests". I figured the title in itself was enough to bri...
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May 03, 2010
category: Developers
I've promoted 0.42
Update 1 RC 2 to an official release.
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May 03, 2010
category: Developers
The netbeans folks are getting pretty far along in the release cycle for 6.9, and the FX folks got their 1.3 release out. Between the two they've done a a nice bundle that I've been playing around with for a while. There's a whole laundry list of ...
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May 03, 2010
category: Java Technology
What I realized shortly after we put out Magnolia 4.3 is that while we tried to explain new multisite support for example in this screencast there are still plenty of grey areas and lot of confusion when people actually get to use the multi...
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May 01, 2010
category: Java Technology
This is the first edition of a new column I'll be writing each weekend titled "java.net: the Week in Review." In the column, I'll present all of the previous week's Java Today news items, a selection of java.net blog posts, polls, and ...
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May 01, 2010
category: Java Technology
Mergers and Acquisitions became part of the business model of every mid size to global enterprise: If you're grown big enough, you'll have to either acquire and merge, or ...
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