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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Diamond at the gate
The first of the small language changes of Java 7 has made his way into the jdk7 repository forrest.
The diamond syntax let the compiler infers the type arguments of a generic constructor call.
Maurizio Cimadamore has just push a patch that enable to use diamond syntax to instantiate a generics.
The diamond syntax is one of the changes introduced by the
coin project and
is the first one introduced in jdk7 repository.
The diamond syntax allows to instantiate a generic type without specify the
type argument, the compiler will infer them using the context.
In the example above, you can note that the list or the map
are instantiated without providing things between the brackets.
This change doesn't turn Java into something really different but,
in my opinion, it really improves the readability.
Just one line about the algorithm used, the constructor inference syntax
uses it own algorithm instead of relying on the one used to infer
method type argument.
I think this is not a good idea
because we have now two different
inference algorithms but Maurizio thinks that this new algorithm better fit
with the constructor inference problem and he is more expert than me :)
import java.util.*;
public class DiamondTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List list = new ArrayList();
Collections.add...
Date: August, 27 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate
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