Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 4 (JDK 1.7.0.4)

Oracle has released the Java 7 Update 4 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:

Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 32 (JDK 1.6.0.32)

Oracle has released the Java 6 Update 32 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:

Upcoming Amazon Beanstalk Support in NetBeans 7.2

I’m excited to review the pending changes to NetBeans 7.2 in the New and Noteworthy page and see that they are now having support for deploying web applications directly from the IDE to the Amazon Beanstalk service.

Running PMD Against NetBeans Sources (Just the Editor)

While learning to write NetBeans plugins I have spent time browsing the entire NetBeans source code base I checked out of Mercurial (main-golden). During part of that I got curious about what kinds of results would show up from various static analysis tools. Out of coincidence I had EasyPMD installed. I went into NetBeans and [...]

Testing out the PMD Recommendation “Avoid Integer Instantiation”

Lately I was running PMD against a large code base and while waiting got to re-reading some of the rulesets. It has actually been several years since I reviewed and tested the static analysis rulesets and wondered if they still applied given more modern hardware, newer versions of the JDK 1.6 and 1.7, and better [...]

Bamboo vs Hudson ?

Recently on Answers.Atlassian.com someone posted the question “What value addition does Bamboo provides for automation testers over Hudson/Jenkins?” : at this thread https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36248/what-value-addition-does-bamboo-provides-for-automation-testers-over-hudson-jenkins?page=1 Here’s the high-level summary I provided based on a quick analysis I recently did between the two tools.   Bamboo is part of the Atlassian tool suite and as such provides great cross-app [...]

Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 3 (JDK 1.7.0.3)

Oracle has released the Java 7 Update 3 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Java™ SE 7 Update 3 The full internal version number for this update release is 1.7.0_03-b04 (b05 in Windows, where “b” means “build”). The external version number is 7u3. Olson Data 2011l Java SE 7u3 contains [...]

Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 31 (JDK 1.6.0.31)

Oracle has released the Java 6 Update 31 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Java™ SE 6 Update 31 The full internal version number for this update release is 1.6.0_31-b04 (b05 in Windows, where “b” means “build”). The external version number is 6u31. Olson Data 2011l Java SE 6u31 contains [...]

Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 30 (JDK 1.6.0.30)

Oracle has released the Java 6 Update 30 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Java VisualVM 1.3.2 Java VisualVM based on VisualVM 1.3.2 is included in Java SE 6u30. This release introduces the following features and enhancements: Issue 428: Show CompositeType field descriptions in tooltips Tracking (hash)map resize events by [...]

Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 29 (JDK 1.6.0.29)

Oracle has release the Java 6 Update 29 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Additional Details can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u29-relnotes-507960.html Bug ID Category Sub-Category Synopsis 7041200  java classes_net java.net.InterfaceAddress’s equals method may throw NPE 6942989  java classes_util_logging Memory leak of java.lang.ref.WeakReference objects 7037336  java_deployment download Downloading of resources [...]