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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]
OpenJDK @ FOSDEM 2007
2007/2/26 22:29 · Permalink · Comments [1]
Another event that was unthinkable a year ago [Read More]
Flashing past the finish
2006/12/11 03:31 · Permalink · Comments [4]
With thanks to all [Read More]
Behind the scenes
2006/11/16 22:21 · Permalink · Comments [1]
A quick glimpse at just some of what had to be done in order to open-source two major components of a closed-source project. [Read More]
One giant leap, two small steps
2006/11/12 21:01 · Permalink · Comments [11]
Sun is open-sourcing its entire Java stack—ME, SE, and EE—under the GNU General Public License, version 2. You can get the source code for HotSpot and javac in the new OpenJDK project. [Read More]
Weekend hack: Planet JDK upgraded to Atom 1.0
2006/10/01 21:05 · Permalink ·
The simple pleasures of programming [Read More]
Source-code management for an open JDK
2006/9/26 23:06 · Permalink · Comments [15]
The aging source-code management system we’ve been using for the JDK all these years is unsuitable for open development. To which newer system should we migrate as we open-source the code? (Hint: The likely answer involves eighty protons, eighty electrons, and one hundred twenty-one neutrons.) [Read More]
Java SE 6 schedule update
2006/9/04 21:29 · Permalink · Comments [15]
Cantering toward completion [Read More]
Removing features from the Java SE platform
2006/8/29 13:08 · Permalink · Comments [14]
Perhaps the most significant recent change to the JSR 270 specification is the definition—and first application—of a policy for removing existing features. Herewith a bit about the motivation and the details, and why you might not be able to play MIDI sound files out-of-the-box on a future version of the platform. [Read More]
Java SE 6 Release Contents (JSR 270): Public Review
2006/8/29 12:41 · Permalink · Comments [3]
Trotting into the arena [Read More]
At sixes and sevens
2006/8/16 22:32 · Permalink · Comments [2]
Some unsurprising answers to recent expressions of surprise. [Read More]
Yes, we really are going to open-source the JDK
2006/8/14 22:49 · Permalink · Comments [11]
Yes. Really. In early 2007. [Read More]
Slides from “Integrating XML into the Java™ Programming Language”
2006/6/14 22:08 · Permalink · Comments [3]

I’ve posted a condensed version of the slides from my JavaOne talk.

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Class-Path Wildcards in Mustang
2006/2/15 10:17 · Permalink · Comments [3]
Asterisks to the rescue! [Read More]