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
November 09, 2010
The Apache Software Foundation board has released a
statement regarding the JCP.
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November 08, 2010
Another interesting article, this time on the SD Times, by Andrew Binstock. I quote the final paragraphs:
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November 08, 2010
The Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing was introduced in JDK 6u10 as a replacement for the old Metal LoF. With JDK 7, Nimbus will be moved from an Oracle-proprietary extension (com.sun.java.swing) to a standard API (javax.swing) so that it becomes ...
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November 06, 2010
Some thoughts on the Premium JVM and the benefits of freeing the JVM separate from Java SE.
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November 06, 2010
Some thoughts on the Premium JVM and the benefits of freeing the JVM separate from Java SE.
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November 06, 2010
LIU Qi from Longsoon wrote up some OpenJDK MIPS port related information on the IcedTea wiki: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/MIPSPort. Go check it out if you own some MIPS hardware and want to help out.
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November 06, 2010
Some thoughts on the Premium JVM and the benefits of freeing the JVM separate from Java SE.
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November 05, 2010
The idea of the lazy Singleton Pattern is to initialize a static field only when needed and not during the initialization of the class. The code for that pattern is this one:
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November 04, 2010
The results of the JCP EC elections are now available. We are happy to see that two of our three nominations - Apache and Red Hat - were elected. Our third one - Hologic - was to our regret not....
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November 04, 2010
Today I received a comment on my previous blog post about the Oracle vs Google issue.
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