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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October 28, 2010
Last week, Java champion Stephen Colebourne posted a blog outlining worst-case concerns about the upcoming JCP EC elections. Oracle's Adam Messinger has posted a response in the blog comments section. I'm quoting it here in its entirety: Stephen, It...
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October 28, 2010
We've been working on some improvements to the multi-catch and more precise rethrow feature and are planning to push the changes soon. First, as long as a catch parameter is effectively final (in other words not reassigned inside the catch block)...
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October 27, 2010
I wanted to summarise, comment on and respond to four recent blogs - Doug Lea, Henrik Stahl, Bill Burke and
Mike Milinkovich.
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October 26, 2010
This a question that is often asked by my students: How to get the current class in Java ?
In the code below, instead of A.class, I want to something like "get the current class".
One of my student even invent a new syntax for that purpose this....
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October 26, 2010
Yesterday I wrote about Thread.MemoryBarrier() and some of its performance characteristics.
I wanted to do some benchmarking to see whether mfence really is faster than a locked
memory operation, but instead of writing a microbenchmark (wh...
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October 26, 2010
This a question that is often asked by my students: How to get the current class in Java ?
In the code below, instead of A.class, I want to something like "get the current class".
One of my student even invent a new syntax for that purpose this....
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October 26, 2010
Doug Lea recently announced his intention of leaving the JCP Executive Committee and posted a public letter outlining his reasons which you can find here. Doug is a professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York and...
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October 25, 2010
In last week's 0.44.0.6 update I fixed a memory model bug. In retrospect it was a
pretty dumb bug, but in my defence, even the easy parts of memory models are still
pretty subtle and when I started IKVM.NET both the Java and CLR memory mod...
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October 25, 2010
I love the title of Ian Skerrett's article. They problem is that in the belief system of the Mirror Universe which Oracle inhabits, they do have a clue. It's the rest of us unkempt heathens that don't get it. Oracle can't get a clue until first t...
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October 24, 2010
With apolgies to Babylon 5.
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