Month: June 2016

OpenJDK builds for Windows now available from Redhat

As I mentioned in an earlier post, officially supported OpenJDK builds for non-Linux platforms have been notoriously hard to come by in the past, at least until Azul started their Zulu builds in 2013. Unofficial community builds are also available from the ojdkbuild project on Github.

Today Redhat announced that their OpenJDK offerings now include builds for the Windows platform as well.

After Google decided to use OpenJDK in Android N, I guess this is another strong indicator of OpenJDK’s value and increasingly wide adoption.

JEE Guardians petition Oracle to actively work on Enterprise Java standards again

Over the last 6 months or so, the development on Java EE 8 JSRs led by Oracle has nearly come to a stand-still. Even some spec leads working for Oracle privately admitted that they cannot do their part because Oracle has given them other priorities.

That is why the JEE Guardians group was formed by the community and that’s why I just signed this petition: “Larry Ellison: Tell Oracle to Move Forward Java EE as a Critical Part of the Global IT Industry”

If you care about the future of Enterprise Java, please get involved and sign the petition, too.

Retrieve “last modified” timestamp of web resource in UTC seconds

This command line assumes that “${url}” is the URL of the web resource:

curl -s -I "${url}" | grep 'Last-Modified:' | cut -c 16- | date -f - +'%s'

It can be useful to check the freshness of a download URL before a GET request.

You could compare the result to the last-modified timestamp of a local file and only download the remote file if it is newer than the existing local one.