Mark Reinhold’s Blog

Closures for Java

2009/11/24 15:57 · Permalink · Comments [20]

It’s time. [Read More]

JDK 7 Milestone 5

2009/11/13 17:39 · Permalink · Comments [16]

Some small language changes, a fork/join framework, a layer component for Swing, faster sorting, and more—now available for download! [Read More]

JDK 7 Milestone 4

2009/7/30 22:47 · Permalink · Comments [7]

Now available for download [Read More]

Upcoming gig: JavaOne 2009

2009/5/28 09:36 · Permalink · Comments [1]

See you next week! [Read More]

JDK 7

2009/3/25 00:11 · Permalink ·

Engage! [Read More]

Project Jigsaw

2008/12/03 00:48 · Permalink · Comments [24]

A modular JDK, modular applications, a modular Java Platform—make it so! [Read More]

The Modular Java Platform

2008/12/01 23:58 · Permalink · Comments [5]

What’s sauce for the goose, and for the gander, is also sauce for the meta-goose [Read More]

Packaging Java code

2008/11/30 23:12 · Permalink · Comments [11]

To JAR hell—and back again [Read More]

The massive, monolithic JDK

2008/11/25 00:35 · Permalink · Comments [22]

The beneﬁts and hazards of monotonically accretive, deeply interconnected platform evolution [Read More]

Wouldn’t it be cool?

2008/10/07 20:50 · Permalink · Comments [17]

It’s good to have dreams. [Read More]

The OpenJDK Charter: First Amendment

2008/5/29 09:35 · Permalink ·

The initial term of the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board recently ended, per the original Charter, and one of the GB Members was recently hired by Sun. What to do? [Read More]

OpenJDK in Fedora 9

2008/5/13 07:51 · Permalink · Comments [1]

… and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux too! [Read More]

OpenJDK in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008/4/24 10:42 · Permalink · Comments [2]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released earlier today, complete with a set of packages based on OpenJDK 6. [Read More]

When planets collide

2008/4/23 21:11 · Permalink ·

Sometimes expanding the universe requires smashing planets together. [Read More]

First non-Sun participant voted into OpenJDK Membership

2008/3/18 22:38 · Permalink · Comments [2]

Welcome (back), Neal! [Read More]

Slides from “The State of OpenJDK” @ FOSDEM 2008

2008/2/23 06:37 · Permalink ·

Live from the Free Java Meeting at FOSDEM 2008 … [Read More]

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008/2/14 20:30 · Permalink ·

I ❤ code—and documents too! [Read More]

Slides from “OpenJDK: The First Year” @ JavaPolis 2007

2007/12/18 14:53 · Permalink ·

The slides from my talk last week at JavaPolis 2007. [Read More]

Goodbye TeamWare, hello Mercurial!

2007/12/04 22:15 · Permalink · Comments [6]

The OpenJDK code base for JDK 7 now ofﬁcially resides in our brand new Mercurial repositories. Life is good! [Read More]

Upcoming gig: JavaPolis 2007

2007/11/08 20:52 · Permalink ·

See you in Antwerp! [Read More]

Upcoming OpenJDK infrastructure projects

2007/11/06 12:23 · Permalink · Comments [3]

The publication last week of our experimental Mercurial repositories heralds the ﬁrst of many infrastructure projects that we hope to initiate, and in most cases complete, over the next year or so. Herewith an overview of the entire list. [Read More]

Welcome, Red Hat!

2007/11/05 09:40 · Permalink · Comments [1]

This just in … Red Hat has signed both the Sun Contributor Agreement and the OpenJDK Community TCK License. [Read More]

Mercurial rocks!

2007/11/01 09:09 · Permalink · Comments [3]

Whooosh! [Read More]

Publishing code reviews

2007/10/11 11:02 · Permalink · Comments [5]

One of the engineering practices that’s served the JDK development team well for many years now is that of peer-based code reviews. What’s the most expedient way to enable any OpenJDK contributor to publish code-review materials on the open web for all to see? [Read More]

Constitutional conversations commence

2007/10/04 12:06 · Permalink ·

The OpenJDK Governance Board held its ﬁrst two meetings this past July. The minutes have just been posted; herewith the highlights. [Read More]