It has been a tumultuous time for Java – the transition to Oracle ownership has been rocky, there has been JCP drama, the language is falling behind feature-wise, and it’s future on a increasingly important platform (OS X) was briefly looking bleak. Oracle’s stewardship over Java has been the center of a lot of controversy [...]
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Analysis of Apple’s Java bombshell
Posted by Spencer Uresk on October 25, 2010
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I heard about Apple’s deprecation of Java just as I was headed to BlizzCon this week and have spent some time over the past few days chewing on Apple’s move, their motives, and the ramifications. The sky isn’t falling… yet. Java 6 is currently quite well-support on OS X. Java 7 isn’t slated to be [...]
More updates about the Oracle vs Google lawsuit
Posted by Spencer Uresk on August 13, 2010
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The text of Oracle’s complaint is available online, here (courtesy of Rick Ross of JavaLobby and dzone). It appears as though the complaint centers around 7 patents and a claim of copyright infringement. Patents There are 7 patent claims, all of which seem to center around virtual machine related concepts: 6,125,447 – Protection domains to [...]
Oracle sues Google over Android
Posted by Spencer Uresk on August 13, 2010
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I recall a few years back when rumors were swirling about potential buyers of Sun Microsystems. There seemed to be a consensus within the Java community that it would be better for the future of Java for Sun to be acquired by Oracle rather than IBM. Oracle had been a good participant in the JCP [...]
JDK 6 update 21 kind of breaks Eclipse on Windows
Posted by Spencer Uresk on July 15, 2010
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If you recently upgraded to JDK 6 update 21 on Windows and are noticing lots of Eclipse problems, I probably know why (and can show you how to fix it). First, some background. The HotSpot VM (Sun’s implementation) has a concept known as the Permanent Generation, or PermGen for short. Its main purpose is to [...]