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DEVELOPMENT: Java 7 (OpenJDK/IcedTea) for the BUG 2.0
For anyone interested in Java 7, I have built OpenJDK 7 (via IcedTea) for BUG 2.0 (Angstrom, armv7, Zero VM). The binaries are available here. The binaries are not provided as Angstrom opkgs, so the installation process...
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DEVELOPMENT: OpenJDK on BUG 1.3 Devices *Update: now with shark*
For awhile now, behind the scenes we've been working on getting a high-quality build of OpenJDK ready for our new BUG 2.0 device. This VM offers great performance and up-to-date features on parity with what's...
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DEVELOPMENT: Friday afternoon remote debugging, remotely.
I had the opportunity to work on a nasty little defect from home this afternoon. Some background: Originally we used the AvetanaBT implementation for java-level API hooks into bluez for bluetooth programming. It has served...
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DEVELOPMENT: Fun with Java, our repo, java-gnome, and dbus-java.
I posted a few weeks ago about how our extras repository is now online. Since then I've had some downtime to add packages to our repository at the request of other BUG developers and some...
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HOW TO: BUG + MySQL + openJDK-cacao
Developing database applications for the Bug Platform can be challenging, mostly because phoneME doesn't support JDBC. A viable solution to this problem might be installing a different JVM, one which supports JDBC, like cacao or...
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HOW TO: BeagleBoard, Java, OSGi, and Benchmarking
The BeagleBoard is a sweet little single board computer from Texas Instruments, based on the OMAP 3530 processor. It features audio in and out, S-Video and DVI out, USB, RS-232, and an SD card (though...
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DEVELOPMENT: Another round of FOSS Java Benchmarks
Kevin Shultz is back in the office and had some time to put together a refresh of his always interesting and sometimes contraversial take on FOSS JVM performance. Interesting gains have been made by both...
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DEVELOPMENT: BUG + OpenJDK
Today we're happy to announce we are working with Robert Schuster and Sebastian Mancke of tarent and Jalimo on porting OpenJDK to the BUG. We have watched excitedly in the past of progress being make...
