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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]
OpenJDK Community Cosmology
2007/6/07 22:41 · Permalink ·
Every community needs a creation myth. Here’s ours. [Read More]
Slides from “OpenJDK Project Report” @ JavaOne 2007
2007/6/04 13:12 · Permalink ·
I’ve posted the slides from my JavaOne talk. [Read More]
Roll credits!
2007/5/16 13:46 · Permalink · Comments [2]
This source code brought to you by … [Read More]
The OpenJDK Charter
2007/5/09 17:11 · Permalink ·
A signature moment [Read More]
Liftoff!
2007/5/08 11:09 · Permalink · Comments [5]
On our way to escape velocity… [Read More]
Who are you?
2007/4/27 21:08 · Permalink · Comments [5]
Please build and then identify yourself. [Read More]
Video gig
2007/3/14 22:05 · Permalink ·
A quick chat with Simon [Read More]
Linux packaging and Java modules
2007/3/01 23:26 · Permalink · Comments [1]
Modern Linux distributions have powerful tools for managing software packages and their dependencies. Do these tools obviate the need for the Java module system being developed for JSR 277, or can these two kinds of systems somehow work together? [Read More]