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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April 05, 2009
I've been gone from Sun for a little while now but of course I'm still interested in Java, and thankfully still have access to this java.net blog. Anyway the recent news about IBM pondering buying Sun has piqued my interest....
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April 03, 2009
This book of selected blog posts and articles focuses on native language issues, improving performance, Solaris OS tools, and more. It is also available online.
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April 03, 2009
Russian PC World magazine, Mir PC, has published its list of the Best Products of 2008 and awarded Sun Studio 12 as the top open-source development tool.
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April 03, 2009
In JDK 7, we have added a new method (getReason) to the java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException class which returns an object indicating the reason a certificate chain, or CertPath, is invalid. Previously, there was no standard mechanism to de...
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April 03, 2009
I pushed build 53 (b53) to
download.java.net yesterday.
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April 03, 2009
This book of selected blog posts and articles focuses on native language issues, improving performance, Solaris OS tools, and more. It is also available online.
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April 02, 2009
Dan Dyer's Football Statistics Applet (screenshot below) is a very cool applet, and not just because it uses JFreeChart. It packs a *lot* of information into a small space, and makes it easily accessible. I'm wondering if I could adapt this for th...
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April 02, 2009
Tim Ellison of the Harmony project has attempted to discredit my blog post on Intel Nehalem. I'm quite aware of IBM's stellar performance on a "similar" platform, however I wasn't at the liberty to comment on it until a public statement from IBM w...
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April 01, 2009
Yesterday I asked on 2d-dev about how the classes GraphicsEnvironment, GraphicsDevice, GraphicsConfiguration and DisplayMode relate to each other, as nobody really seems to have a clear idea how those map to the real world. Dmitri took some time to ...
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April 01, 2009
HTTP Cookie support was introduced in JDK 5 with the CookieHandler API, then significantly extended in JDK 6 with HttpCookie, CookieManager, CookiePolicy and CookieStore.
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