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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January 18, 2007
Introducing the maven2 java.net skin project (http://maven-javanet-skin.dev.java.net/), which provides a java.net look&feel skin for maven site plugin, for those of you who use maven2 on java.net.
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January 18, 2007
Are you scared of Java language change? Why?
Im going to try and debunk some of the arguments against change, and express some frustration with Java as-is.
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January 17, 2007
View over 4000 Solaris Ready Applications and Solutions
that run on the Solaris 10 OS and are shipping today on x64/x86 and SPARC
platforms.
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January 17, 2007
Just a plug (and additional reference) on my December 2006 article on JVM TI at http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jvm_ti. I really had not expected this article to be very popular, but I was assuming that only people writing JVM TI a...
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January 17, 2007
"HTML allowed" actually means "Comply with those angle brackets or I will swallow all your paragraphs. You have been warned.".
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January 17, 2007
The Solaris 10 kernel supports a fine-grained security model, based on
"least privilege".
For example, in order to run a server on port 80 you dont need to be root. The PRIV_NET_PRIVADDR privilege is
sufficient.
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January 17, 2007
In my last entry, I mentioned that I had reimplemented the RMI
registry portably. Reimplementation allows to do more than the
socket factory hack I described. And if you ever need to
understand gory details of the RMI protocol, t...
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January 17, 2007
If youve had occasion to use the RMI registry seriously, you
may have encountered some of its shortcomings. Chief of these
is that anybody on the local machine can modify the registry.
There are only a few things you can do about ...
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January 17, 2007
My colleague Nick Stephen has written an excellent and detailed article about Virtual MBeans.
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January 17, 2007
Recently Chris Lamb and friends wrote about their experience adding a feature to javac, a pastime slightly more popular than it used to be now that javacs sources have been opened under the GPL. And he found something strange:
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