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Dr. Srinath  recently shared an InfoQ article with us and its title is " Is Your Java Application Hostile to JIT Compilation? ". I'm writing what I learnt from that article in this blog post. Overview of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler Java code is usually compiled into platform independent bytecode (class files) using "javac" command. This "javac" command is the  Java programming language compiler . The JVM is able to load the class files and execute the Java bytecode via the Java interpreter. Even though this bytecode is usually interpreted, it might also be compiled in to native machine code using the JVM's Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler.  Unlike the normal compiler, the JIT compiler compiles the code (bytecode) only when required. With JIT compiler, the JVM monitors the methods executed by the interpreter and identifies the “hot methods” for compilation. After identifying the Java method calls, the JVM compiles the bytecode...

Few months ago, I wrote a blog post on Installing Oracle JDK 7 (Java Development Kit) on Ubuntu . It has several steps to install the JDK on Ubuntu. Every time when there is a new version, I upgrade the Java version in my laptop. Since I do few repetitive steps for every Java installation, I wrote a simple installation script for Java. The installation script is available at GitHub:  https://github.com/chrishantha/install-java You just have to run "install-java.sh" with root privileges once you download the JDK from Oracle. It also supports the installation of JDK Demos and "Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" Please refer the install-java.sh README at GitHub.  The script supports JDK 7 and JDK 8. Please try the installation scripts and let me know any feedback! :)

Why Java Security Manager is needed? In Java, the Security Manager is available for applications to have various security policies. The Security Manager helps to prevent untrusted code from doing malicious actions on the system.  You need to enable Security Manager, if you plan to host any untrusted user applications in WSO2 products, especially in products like WSO2 Application Server . The security policies should explicitly allow actions performed by the code base. If any of the actions are not allowed by the security policy, there will be a SecurityException .  For more information on this, you can refer Java SE 7 Security Documentation . Security Policy Guidelines for WSO2 Products When enabling Security Manager for WSO2 products, it is recommended to give all permissions to all jars inside WSO2 product. For that, we plan to sign all jars using a common key and grant all permissions to the signed code by using "signedBy" grant as follows. grant sign...