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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December 23, 2010
Catching up on blogging, back in November Maurizio and I gave a talk on Project Coin at Devoxx.
The video is up on Parleys and Ive posted the slides too.
These links, along with analogous ones from last year, are available from my new Devoxx tal...
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December 22, 2010
To use javac from JDK N to cross-compiler to an older platform version, the correct practice is to:
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December 20, 2010
As planned, earlier today Stuart pushed the first set of changes to the JDK libraries to use the new Project Coin features, adding a bit of sparkle with diamonds mounted in java.io, java.lang, java.util, and elsewhere.
More diamonds and other shiny...
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December 20, 2010
A patch I wrote for mobileorg-android was accepted and shipped to the Market in mobileorg-android 0.4.8. It works around lighttpds missing support for the Expect HTTP header. The issue was that pulling from lighttpd to the phone would work, but pu...
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December 19, 2010
This is the story of a deal.
Not one that was ever signed on a piece of paper.
But one that was still very important.
Its the deal between the owner of Java and the Community.
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December 15, 2010
One of the secondary design goals of JSR 292 is to give dynamic language implementors freedom to delay bytecode generation until an opportune moment. In other words, we want to encourage mixed-mode execution, bouncing gracefully between interpreted...
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December 14, 2010
The JDK 7 build has been using -source 7 for some time, but to date use of new language features has been informal and incidental. Supporting Project Coin and JSR 334, Stuart Marks will be leading a minting exercise over the JDK code base to syst...
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December 13, 2010
Following up on earlier work, the javac team has pushed a new implementation of Project Coins simplified varargs method invocation feature
(jdk,
langtools). The changes are scheduled to appear in the promotion of JDK 7 b123.
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December 09, 2010
In the last article we have seen what is a raster display and how to load and retrieve data from it. We also understood that raster techniques can be used not just to display things on a monitor, but also to change the data inside images.
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December 09, 2010
Today, the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) joined Doug Lea
and Tim
Peierls in resigning from the Java Community Process (JCP)
Executive Committee (EC).
The message from the ASF was simple - The JCP is Dead. But is it?
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