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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Java Technology
January 13, 2010
The JCP Program Office wishes us a Happy New Year, and has posted the JCP 2010 Event Calendar. The December JCP Newsletter is also available, if you haven't taken a look at that yet. I see that the newsletter mentions my recent interview with Ad...
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January 13, 2010
One nice thing about JSF 2.0 is that they have taken good ideas from elsewhere, such as the “project stage” concept from Rails. If you set the project stage to ”development”, you get detailed error and warning messages. If you...
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January 12, 2010
We are finalizing plans for the Java Power Tools Bootcamps and TDD training sessions for the first half of 2010. Highlights include the upcoming London and Paris sessions of the Java Power Tools bootcamps, as well as many sessions Wellington, Sydney,...
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January 12, 2010
JSF 2 introduces an EL variable flash. Anything you set persists for one post-redirect-get cycle. (In contrast, anything in the request scope is gone after a redirect.) A typical use of the flash is for messages. A managed bean method might put a mes...
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January 12, 2010
Tree-like structures are a very common pattern. Just to count instances of this pattern in my FLOSS projects:
The File Explorer in blueMarine, where photos are shown as they are stored in directories on the local disk.
The Calendar Explorer ...
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January 11, 2010
Maven seems to be one of those topics that brings out passion in many developers. In this series of articles, I want to take a look at some of the common myths and ideas that circulate about Maven, and see how they stand up to the ligh...
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January 11, 2010
My first speech of the year will be at the JavaDay 2010 in Rome - officially a JUG event, practically a mini-conference (with more than one thousand attendees). It's free, so save the date.
My speech will be about best design practices for ...
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January 11, 2010
In the forceTen GeoCoding API there's a simple map-like class named FactSheet, that contains a few attributes about a geographic entity (such as the population count, or the official elevation of the place). It's the typical scenario where ...
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January 08, 2010
I’ve decided to leave Sun Microsystems, after spending 8+ years there (well, 10+ years if you count my two internships) working on graphics engines for the Java platform. Tomorrow, January 8th, 2010 will be my last day on the job.
For more on t...
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January 08, 2010
ORIGINALLY Posted on December 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM PST (before java.net site was
taken down)
Last night, I attended the very first
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