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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March 19, 2010
I've spending the week in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado at the Java Posse Roundup. It's the fourth year in a row, with record attendance. And as always, it's been fantastic. It's hard to explain an Open Space conference - it doesn't sound like ...
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March 19, 2010
Hudson Hackathon Day 1 is over, and I'm just back to the office.
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March 16, 2010
If you are living in San Francisco bay area, or if you are visiting the area for EclipseCon next week, make sure to come to Hudson Hackathon this Friday 3/19 and/or Saturday 3/20. The plan is to meet up, hang out, chat, hack code, and have fun. If y...
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March 15, 2010
One of the changes to the Java programming language made back in JDK 5 was the introduction of
covariant returns, that is, the ability in a subtype to override a method in a supertype and return a more specific type. For example,
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March 14, 2010
In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter
wrote
about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases
were a bad approach to language design.
This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language.
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March 12, 2010
As of build 85 of JDK 7, bug 6634138 "Source generated in last round not compiled" has been fixed in javac.
Previously, source code generated in a round of annotation processing where RoundEnvironment.processingOver() was true was not compiled.
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March 12, 2010
In annotation processing there are three distinct roles,
the author of the annotation types, the author of the annotation processor, and the client of the annotations. The third role includes the responsibility to configure the compiler correctl...
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March 12, 2010
Once again I'll be acting as the Mobility track for JavaOne 2010. The call for papers closes Sunday at 11:59 PDT. With such a limit time left the tracks marketing team has put together the following themes for this year.
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March 11, 2010
With a duo of fixes in JDK 7 build 85, one by Jon
(6927797)
and another by me (6926703), the langtools repository has reached another milestone in testing robustness: all the tests pass with assertions (-ea) and system assertions (-esa) enabled....
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