Apple on Tuesday rolled out two Java updates, one for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and another for OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the latter offering improved security by uninstalling the Apple ...

In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...

Jeff Friesen puts the newer, faster applet to the test in this companion to his JavaWorld feature: “Are applets making a comeback?” Here you can get a short introduction to rich Internet applet ...

My problem is that I need to solve two problems.<BR><BR>1) Run/download at runtime Java program (?) from a server<BR><BR>2) The code must access resources outside the client JVM. My understanding is ...

For various reasons, Java applets have never worked all that well but we some folks use them anyway, for example in business charting and other graphic visualizations. Over the past few years ...

Security researchers have confirmed that the latest version of Oracle’s Java software framework is vulnerable to Web hacks that allow attackers to install malware on end users’ computers. “We have ...

Last November IFTTT, the popular web automation platform, introduced powerful applet tools to its Partner tier of users. The Partner tier was not designed for the average user though, and was ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A pair of vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Plug-In ...

Sun just issued an update to Java that closes some critical security bugs. The latest and greatest is now version 6 update 17. This means that many Windows XP users, like myself, will be installing ...

Security researchers warn that cybercriminals have started using Java exploits signed with digital certificates to trick users into allowing the malicious code to run inside browsers. A signed Java ...