Oracle has finally announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on its Java browser plugin. It’s the end of an era. Oracle has announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on the Java browser plugin.

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 ...

Java's long, slow death begins with the September release of JDK 9, according to Oracle. Modern browsers are moving quickly to drop support for plugins, and Oracle sees the writing on the wall. This ...

The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...