Tag Archives: Java

Solution to “Error starting modern compiler”

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Tormod Haugen

Right. So then I had the chance to open a old project in in eclipse today. From an old workspace. Tests still ran, code looked just as bad as badass as before. Running the clean-build target through ant produced a … Continue reading →

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Java plugin in Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Tormod Haugen

I needed to install a Java plugin for Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04 (beta). This didn’t happen by itself when I installed sun-java6-plugin, but a quick search showed me what Eirik Hoem found out a year ago. Or, as Karl Trygve … Continue reading →

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Executing native processes from Java

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

This is kind of a coincidence. Today I got contacted by a friend, wondering how to run a native Windows program from within Java. I said as I usually do: Google it. Not liking to get that served myself, I … Continue reading →

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Managing Memory in Java

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

Getting memory management to play along in Java is a whole other chapter than it was in C and C++. And by that I mean simpler and better. Though a few people would still like to allocate and deallocate memory … Continue reading →

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Specifying what to get, or post

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

I’ve noticed that I generally don’t post too much on this blog/journal/whatever. This partly comes from the fact that I suspect everyone to already know what I do, or find out. Thus I avoid public ridicule if I don’t write … Continue reading →

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Java 7 tidbits

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

Yesterday I spent some time listening to the presentation Chet Haase on Java FX, Update N and JDK 7. This contains quite a lot of promises, promising promises and tentative promises. It left me rather excited at the future (and … Continue reading →

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Java Resources

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

A couple of my co-workers attending Heinz Kabutz’ Java course in Oslo this week. After they came back, talk drifted in on resources for a minute. Parsing my feeds (Google Reader, hint, hint) brought forth Kabutz’ newsletter and Sun’s Core … Continue reading →

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Generating Class-Path in Jar Manifest with Ant

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Tormod Haugen

I’ve recently started to touch Ant. Well, I’ve used it before, but only on the ant clean all level. Now I wanted to write a small build script for a tiny project. Which went off easily enough with the help … Continue reading →

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