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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Poll Result: Oracle Acquisition of Sun Most Significant in 2009
Last week's java.net poll produced a not too surprising result: most developers consider Oracle's announced acquisition of Sun to be the most significant event in the Java realm in 2009. A total of 343 votes were cast in the survey, with the following results:
What was the most significant Java/JVM news/event in 2009?
58% (200 votes) - Oracle's announced acquisition of Sun
2% (8 votes) - Java store and Warehouse
13% (45 votes) - Closures will be in JDK 7
8% (28 votes) - Java EE 6 approval
6% (22 votes) - Emergence of Scala
6% (20 votes) - JavaFX development
5% (16 votes) - I don't know
1% (4 votes) - Other
One comment was posted, by javaprox, titled "Oracle Buys Sun":
No doubt that the most significant news event of 2009 is - "Oracle Buys Sun". This acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. From now Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system.
I'm not sure IBM would agree with this comment, but I have felt all along that Oracle's ultimate objectives in the acquisition include spanning the hardware and software realms from enterprise data centers down to mobile devices, all within the new Oracle/Sun.
There was no close second place choice for the most significant news/event in 2009; the voting was scattered among the other choices, with "Closures in JDK 7" taking second plac...
Date: January, 01 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/01/01/poll-result-oracle-acquisition-sun-most-significant-2009
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