http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/ en-us 2008-05-02T12:14:35-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/05/openjdk_regress.html Go to openjdk.java.net and scroll your eyes down to the Tools section of the navigation bar. You will see a link that's been there a long time, jtreg harness. There is new stuff behind that link now available. Today we... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-05-02T12:14:35-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/05/open_media_and.html On an earlier blog posting a commenter asked: "I would like to know how to use the VLC media player stack as the media handler for OpenJDK.." so, yeah, I hear you, there are many asking for better media support... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-05-01T11:39:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/java_6_for_os_x.html It's been how long? Thank you Apple for getting this out! Anyway, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1: This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update... robogeek 2008-04-29T15:43:45-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/on_hacking_the.html I'm giving a session at JavaOne this year titled "Hacking the OpenJDK" and it's been very interesting sitting with this topic these last few months. Much of the presentation is an overview of the developer guide, source repositories and... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-04-28T17:28:14-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/interplanetary.html I've been subscribed to Planet Classpath and Planet JDK for a couple years. This blog has been aggregated into Planet JDK for a long time, and Planet Classpath was always a "them" aggregation. But, yeah, as Mark Reinhold says, we've... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-04-25T10:13:01-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/openjdk_6_taste.html It seems the java world is in a bit of an uproar right now with a bit of news which I've seen blogged and newsed about in several places. First, Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04; not 'Hardy Herron' as some have... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-04-24T17:51:47-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/6u10beta_is_ava.html Recently we made Java SE 6 update 10 available for beta testing. Beta testing is a period in product release cycles where testing is taken to people outside the product team, and those "external" testers bang on it with their... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-04-16T16:52:18-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/04/re_into_the_lig.html I think 'Into the light' is the name of an album by Ian Anderson, who is also the a band that's too old to rock'n'roll and too young to die. Anyway it is also Dalibor's way of announcing something really... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-04-08T14:35:53-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/03/duchesses_fosde.html Has it already been two weeks since FOSDEM? Gosh. Anyway, I had a great time there and I will probably post another blog entry based on my recollections. I want to mention specifically one of the sessions, the presentation by... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-03-07T11:41:47-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/02/c_u_fosdem.html It's that time of year again. The time when free java advocates migrate to Belgium to imbibe in talking. I will be there and mjw tells me he's going to make me talk about something. The thing I'm pondering... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-02-19T15:29:57-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/02/the_end_of_the.html I heard Joe Darcy use this phrase .. it's the end of the beginning .. so, yeah, that's about right. "The code is coming! The code is coming!" -- "The code is here!!" is the official announcement of something we... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-02-14T12:21:47-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/01/json_versus_xml.html Is JSON better than XML? is an interesting read. JSON is the new kid for portable data transfer and while JSON derives from Javascript there is JSON parser support in other languages. The posting goes over pro's and con's of... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-01-14T11:16:03-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2008/01/freeze_java.html The latest Javaposse podcast (Java Posse #158 - Newscast for Jan 9th 2008) is out and has some interesting discussion of a question posed by Bruce Eckel (Java: Evolutionary Dead End). Bruce's title is a little misleading because he's not... Community: JDK robogeek 2008-01-10T12:31:12-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2007/12/the_java_progra.html Todays Editors daily blog references Properties Get No Respect .. and something clicked in my mind and communism started running through my mind. Property is highly valued by the ruling class ... something like: The bourgeoisie keeps more and more... Community: JDK robogeek 2007-12-21T13:22:47-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2007/12/should_java_sta.html I've got a few minutes before heading off to a meeting, and see a few blog postings on approximately the same topic. Should Java (the language) strive to be the perfect be-all-end-all language? Or should it simply strive to be... Community: JDK robogeek 2007-12-17T13:14:37-08:00