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
April 16, 2009
Scala 2.7.4-rc1 has been released. It incorporates a few important fixes related to serialization of anonymous functions and generation of Java generics, but the big change is the improved Scala plugin Scala IDE for Eclipse. This means that my backp...
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April 16, 2009
Running with the usual jtreg flags, -a -ignore:quiet always and -s for the langtools area, the basic regression test results on Linux for
OpenJDK 6 build 16 are:
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April 16, 2009
The Java Community Process doesn't exist.
At least not in the way you probably think it does.
This surprised even me (although it shouldn't have), and I'll explain here just exactly what I mean.
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April 15, 2009
I'm enjoying Microsoft's Lang.NET Symposium. Lars Bak just told us about the V8 JavaScript engine. As usual with his work, the virtues are overall simplicity, with a few careful choices about what to optimize. (The recipe is fixnums + stateful Se...
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April 15, 2009
I've allowed my recent blogposts
on the lack of a Java SE 7 platform JSR and the ASF-Sun dispute to simmer for a couple of weeks.
Now, in this post, I'm going to draw on the public information available from the ASF on this topic.
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April 15, 2009
On April 15, the
source bundle for OpenJDK 6 b16 was published.
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April 15, 2009
This a a very nice tutorial on using the MySQL Connector/C++ with MySQL.
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April 14, 2009
I've blogged about
vcvars32.bat and ant
before,
but I decided to take it a step further.
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April 13, 2009
The Java crew at Sun is once again totally into getting ready for this year's JavaOne conference. The papers submitted were awesome: they'll make for a great lineup of technical sessions. EE6 will be a major feature of the enterprise track, as wi...
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April 13, 2009
A few commandments for dealing with Software repositories (source bases) and
the build results of those repositories.
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