Updating Java If you’re running Windows, your best bet is to open Control Panel and look for the “ Java Control Panel ” icon. After clicking on the Java icon, visit the “ Update ” tab to force an ...

The bug was assigned a score of ten out of ten in Oracle’s Common Vulnerability Scoring System—rating the flaw of extreme importance. Java 6 is an older version of Java, and as Qualys CTO Wolfgang ...

Microsoft is offering advice on how to protect yourself from Java-based malware. The instructions are simple: either update it, disable it, or just uninstall it completely.

Also eyed for Java EE 7 is an update to the Web profile introduced in Java EE 6, which offered a set of Java deployment capabilities for Web development. An update could include JAX-RS support.

The Java SE 8 launch is nearly here (due March 18), but how many developers are really ready to upgrade? Quite a few, if the results of a recent survey are any indication. Typesafe, the chief ...

Java, the 14-year-old language and application platform founded by Sun Microsystems, is set to take on a more modular approach with the planned Java SE Development Kit 7 upgrade to the platform ...