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Apologies to those who had to wait patiently for this. The OCTLA for Java SE 7 is now posted on the OpenJDK Legal page. The version for Java SE 7 is fundamentally the same as was for Java SE 6 …
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A couple of annoying bugs have been reported since 7.0 was released, so I decided
to do an update.
By the end of November 2011 my contract with JP Morgan ended after 17 months. In many ways it was an interesting but difficult time. I could learn a lot of interesting (and not so interesting) things. Unfortunately, not so much technical stuff that I would have liked (I didn’t really expect that), but about [...]
JamVM has a
wikipedia page. I didn't create it, and I'm not egotistical enough to maintain it in any way. However, I was less than impressed to see that somebody had taken it upon themselves to put the page forward for
deletion. The reasons being that it hasn't had a recent release, and that it has no claim to notability.I have tried to ...
The end of 2011 is near. The Free Java Momentum will be even bigger in 2012. Have you made your new year’s resolutions yet? And is attending Free Java @ FOSDEM 2012 on Feb 4 and 5 one of them? http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2012/Fosdem Or are you even more ambitious and will you submit a talk proposal? Then [...]
Chris Beams, core committer on the Spring framework, in an InfoQ
interview.
IKVM.NET 0.46 is the last OpenJDK 6 based release, so it will be supported longer
than usual. I haven't yet decided how long exactly, but in any case here is a release
candidate for an update release that incorporates many of the fixes that have been
done since 0.46 was released.
As some of you might have noticed, the latest developer preview of JDK 8 (b17) contains some
changes related to lambda expression support. This document contains a tentative schedule for integrating lambda expression support into the main JDK 8 repository.
Edvard Wendelin, Technical Lead for
JDK 7 Update Releases Project, in a jdk7u-dev mailing list
post, announcing the general availability of the first ever JDK Update Release that ran from start till the finish as an open source project within the OpenJDK community.
The
OpenJDK Twitter feed is now more then 4000 followers strong! After 620 tweets and exactly 14 months of tweeting about JDK 7, JDK 7 Updates and JDK 8, that's a nice round number to end this year on.
There appears to be over-reacting and fearism concerning a recent decision to cancel the DLJ project, and subsequently Ubuntu's plan to remove DLJ-based Java packages from their repository. I'm totally out of the loop of this except for a couple things. As the former DLJ Project Lead I was still vaguely involved with the management of that project, and recently there was an email exchange between ...
There are a couple of subtle differences between the JVM and CLR with respect to member
accessibility. For example, the JVM will allow you to access public members in non-public
base classes:
Sometimes I want a express that a static field is unlikely to change, so the VM should consider it has a constant, but it may changed. And because we all live in a threaded world, if the static field is changed I want that all threads that want to read the field value to notice that the value has changed like a volatile field. ...
I've been doing some cleanup and refactoring and in the process removed some limitations
and fixed a bunch of corner cases.
The last engineering sign-off happened the night before last and yesterday morning the PacX wavegliders headed out of Monterey Bay for Hawaii. They’ll be collecting piles of
data along the way. Every now and then they will pause to do a few laps around mid-ocean buoys to get sensor correlations. It’s been somewhat cloudy, so we’ve had to turn some instruments off to save ...
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