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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What version of Java are you running?
There can bee issues promoting Java applications over the Internet. There are various versions of Windows and Windows Server that run pre-6 Java, or even Microsoft Java Virtual Machine.
Verifying the version of Java on someone machine is a good way of eliminating a potential problem.
Michael Horowitz sponsors the embedded applet approach at http://www.javatester.org/version.html
However, there are several issues with the embedded applet approach. One problem deals with the IE 8 browser. IE is still not entirely Java friendly, IE sometimes just decides to play dead when loading a page with a Java applet.
Sun/Oracle provides a Deployment Toolkit Script called deployJava.js. More about the deployJava.js script and usage can be found at: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advic...
deployJava.js is used for other things such as enhancing google analytics tracking of Java: http://cowwoc.blogspot.com/2008/12/tracking-java-versions-using-google.html
The following script will check and see if the proper version of Java is installed and will display a message if not the proper version is not installed.
deployJava.do_initialize();
var java_message =' Product XYZ requires JavaInvalid version of Java. XYZ requires Java 7 or higher. You can download and install Java from www.java.com'
function altercontent(){
if( deployJava.versio...
Date: March, 27 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/malcolmdavis/archive/2010/03/27/what-version-java-are-you-running
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