Sun Ray 5.1 available
The Sun Ray is a light client created for the professional market in 1999 by Sun Microsystems.
With the acquisition of the company by Oracle, the technology is now a part of the third softwares world company. Who has announced the release of version 5.1 of the solution.
Oracle highlights the extensive support of Windows 7 security, and has improved the multimedia performances.
JavaFX 1.3.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1 for JavaFX available
There is not a lot of major features but a large package of bugfixes.
Read the release notes
Available on javafx.com
Java vulnerabilities, already patched by Oracle !
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Java.
According to the official document of the alert, the vulnerabilities are:
- An error in the code of the class HeadspaceSoundbank can cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted file Soundbank;
- An error in the processing of images can cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted Java applet;
- Several other unspecified vulnerabilities exist in Oracle Java components.
These flaws could allow remote execution of malicious code or open a door to a denial of service attack. Confidential records are no longer protected optimally.
The JVM impacted are:
- Java SE JDK / JRE 6 Update 18 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux;
- Java SE JDK 5.0 Update 23 and earlier for Solaris;
- Java SE SDK 1.4.2_25 and earlier for Solaris;
- Java for Business, JDK / JRE 6 Update 18 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux;
- Java for Business, JDK / JRE 5.0 Update 23 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux;
- Java for Business, SDK / JRE 1.4.2_25 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux.
These reports were confirmed by Oracle that provides security updates to this address.
Source : CERTA alert
Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6 update
VirtualBox 3.1.6 is out. Nothing really new to the program if it is slightly improved stability and fixed many bugs.
The virtualization of Linux distributions has also been central to the efforts of development teams.
In short, this is a minor update. But who sends a major message. The virtualization solution from Sun continues to enjoy the support of the new company owner. In other words, Oracle will take an indirect response to those who worried about the future of VirtualBox after the takeover of the publisher.
VirtualBox 3.1.6 is available (Windows, Mac, Linux (32 and 64 bit) on this page. The tool is also compatible with Solaris / OpenSolaris.
Oracle confirms the arrival of JDK 7
Oracle recently reiterated its commitment to Java at the EclipseCon 2010 is currently taking place in California.
Former Sun, Jeet Kaul - now vice president of Oracle - and Steve Harris, also vice-president of the society, have made frequent statements to this effect during the event.
For Kaul, "the key to the success of Java is its platform," referring to GlassFish, the server reference implementation of Java EE 6.
GlassFish have it continued, should also find an update later this year.
The next GlassFish 3.1 will offer features clustering and replication states. Virtualization will be provided in another update of GlassFish, scheduled for first half 2011.
Both spokesmen Oracle also revealed that the forthcoming Java Development Kit, aka JDK 7, would be the main new modularity, according to Kaul, should allow better performance and should be more scalable and ... modular.
For information, modularity was part of the Java Specification Request 294 in number compared with the version of JDK 7. Additional features result from the JSR 203, providing APIs for I / O, and 292, which advocates support for typed dynamic languages on the Java platform. Java EE 6 had also insisted on modularity.
Finally, Jeet Kaul ended his address by promising the audience that there would have a Java EE 7
Source : developpez.com
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