Blog posts tagged
"Java"

6 posts

Mita Bhattacharya
11 October 2024

Meet Canonical at OCX 2024 in Mainz, Germany

Article Ubuntu

OCX 2024 is a dynamic and inclusive event hosted by the Eclipse Foundation; every year it brings together diverse open source communities from around the world. This year’s gathering features EclipseCon, the flagship conference, and two exciting new co-located events: the Open Community for Java and the Open Community...

Mita Bhattacharya
11 October 2024

Canonical
27 June 2023

Canonical Joins Eclipse Adoptium Working Group to Strengthen Commitment to Open Source Java Runtimes

Article Ubuntu

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is thrilled to announce its membership of the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group. As an esteemed project under the Eclipse Foundation, the Adoptium Working Group brings together renowned OpenJDK builders and distributors such as Alibaba, Azul, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Rivos,...

Canonical
27 June 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
17 May 2022

Snapping PhotoNoteBook: Lessons from the kitchen table, or: How an Android app got converted to a Linux snap

Article Ubuntu

This article was written by Alan Watson, with only small cosmetic changes from me. Having stumbled upon PhotoNoteBook, I asked Alan to write a guest blog post and share his project with the wider snap developer community. ===== The idea for PhotoNoteBook was seeded in 2018 after watching a Double-Glazing salesman...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 May 2022

Canonical
16 December 2021

Log4Shell: Log4j remote code execution vulnerability

Article Security

Last updated on 18th January 2022 to include the latest vulnerability updates. A high impact vulnerability was discovered in Apache Log4j 2, a widely deployed software component used by a lot of Java applications to facilitate logging. An attacker who can control the log messages or their parameters can cause the...

Canonical
16 December 2021

Alan Pope
6 February 2020

Building a Java snap by example

Article Ubuntu

Following up on the previous example of building a rust and C based snaps, I thought we’d take a look at bundling a Java application as a snap. In this example we’ll use an open source game called “Shattered Pixel Dungeon“. It’s a little more complex than some more common snaps, which helps highlight some

Alan Pope
6 February 2020

Canonical
19 April 2019

Announcing OpenJDK 11 packages in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

open source Canonical announcements

OpenJDK 11 is the default JRE/JDK for 18.04 LTS and is covered under LTS upstream security support. OpenJDK 11 will be the default package for the upcoming 19.04 release.

Canonical
19 April 2019