With an eye toward both consumer and enterprise needs, Sun Microsystems is reworking the plug-in architecture of Java in an upcoming update to Java Platform Standard Edition (SE) 6, company officials ...

News that Oracle Corp. plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 prompted a rousing chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the Internet last week. But the news came as no surprise. A ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

The patch fixes 42 vulnerabilities within Java, including ‘the vast majority’ of those that have been rated as the most critical, said Oracle Executive Vice President Hasan Rizvi. A series of big ...

Java's unloved browser plug-in is finally being phased out. With Flash also headed for the dustbin, user security should significantly improve -- provided, of course, that people don't leave the ...

I have Red Hat 9. I just installed Java runtime 1.4.2 hoping that it would allow me to view java within webpages. That didn't work so, how do I point Netscape or any other browser to the java plug in ...

Apple has removed its first-party Java plug-in from Mac web browsers with its latest OS update. The Cupertino-based firm is instructing users to download Oracle's version of the software in its place, ...