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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Developers
August 13, 2010
Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes ...
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August 13, 2010
Seems Oracle bought Sun to become a java patent troll. Trying to destroy the alternative free java implementation that is part of android. Sun used to be agnostic towards Free Software in the past, then became a huge fan on java liberation day. Now ...
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August 13, 2010
Today, Oracle proved the old phrase to be true - "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
They also reminded us why we hate Friday the Thirteenth.
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August 10, 2010
More bug fixes and another release candidate.
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August 09, 2010
Another conversation thread floating around the internet these days is speculation about Oracle and the future of the JCP. Specifically about this little nugget from December of 2007:
I actually got an email recently that started "When Oracle star...
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August 07, 2010
(I started cross-posting blogs to my own website.)
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August 05, 2010
As previously considered, the specification of the try-with-resources statement has been updated to require uniform suppression of all throwables. That is, the semantics of the code around the implicitly generated calls to close was previously
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August 04, 2010
Last week, I enjoyed attending the 2010 JVM Language Summit. Some of the requests from the "what the JVM needs" session could be addressed by a few additional numerical libraries in the platform.
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August 04, 2010
A new release candidate with several bug fixes.
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August 03, 2010
Computing-wise, I've taken a break from the JamVM/OpenJDK port for a couple of days while I play with my latest toy : a cheap mini-netbook based on a Chinese MIPS clone. It's branded CnMbook, but it's available (or was) under dozens of names.Yes, i...
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