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 23, 2010
category: Developers
Very soon now, the
OpenJDK7 sources
(including the source bundles)
and the
JDK7 binary bundles
will include changes to the values of the various "vendor" java properties and also the
Windows COMPANY file properties.
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September 23, 2010
category: Java Technology
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 23, 2010
category: Developers
I've decided to move my blog to a more permanent URL (I'm not sure how long blogs.sun.com will be around), and at the same time it would be nice to switch to a more feature-rich blogging platform. Therefore, effective immediately, the new url for m...
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September 23, 2010
category: Developers
This week I gave two talks at JavaOne. Here are my slides. On Monday Brian Goetz and I talked (again, as in 2009) about the future of the JVM in One VM, Many Languages. The room was full of attentive listeners.
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September 23, 2010
category: Developers
In my recent post
I brought up the idea of a backwards incompatible version of Java.
I indicated that checked exceptions would be an obvious candidate for removal.
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September 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
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
category: Java Technology
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
category: Java Technology
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
category: Java Technology
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
category: Java Technology
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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