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 09, 2010
I case you hadn't noticed :-) despite the recent transition, JavaOne is indeed happening. The call for papers went out a while ago, and it's it's about to close, so submit your proposal today!.
It promises to be a giant year with JavaOne being ju...
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March 03, 2010
I just addedallow_weak_crypto support in OpenJDK. With this property set to false, des-cbc-md5 and des-cbc-crc etypes are not supported, even if you include them i permitted_enctypes or default_{tkt|tgs}_enctypes settings.
Please note that in MIT k...
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March 02, 2010
We're using Mercurial. Our release engineering servers run web servers, so we can browse our repositories, just like the public NetBeans ones at http://hg.netbeans.org, and pull down new changesets anonymously. However, for authentication purposes,...
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March 01, 2010
The "on the Java road" part of my job@Oracle is starting with a busy time:
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February 26, 2010
Moving on from
identity and equality of objects, different notions of equality are also surprisingly subtle in some numerical realms.
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February 25, 2010
James Lorenzen had an excellent blog post about the importance of a descriptive commit comment. I can't agree more.
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February 25, 2010
Today I successfully executed an invokedynamic call on SPARC for the first time. Excellent!
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February 24, 2010
When designing types to be reused by others, there are reasons to favor interfaces over abstract classes.
One complication of using an interface-based approach stems from defining reasonable behavior for the equals and hashCode methods, especiall...
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February 23, 2010
So, yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the first release of JFreeChart, and it slipped by without me noticing! I knew it was coming up, and even checked the exact date a few weeks back, but then on the day I had so much else to do. Life is l...
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February 22, 2010
At the end of last year, EMI/Apple re-released the whole Beatles catalogue as a series (or box sets) of remastered CDs. The Beatles were more or less my first encounter with pop music when I was 8 or so, my first self-bought CD at the age of 12 was ...
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