I was going to try out Azureus bit torrent, so I went to the download page and it said that I needed java. I searched my computer for files named java and found a java runtime environment 1.4.2. or it ...

Today, my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott published a scathing investigative report of how Oracle partners with shovelware companies in order to monetize the distribution of the Java JRE. Given that I work ...

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program. The ...

Adobe Flash and Java are two downloads most of us have installed on our Windows computers, as they give us a richer internet and browsing experience. We have already seen how to manage Adobe Flash ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To run Java apps, open JAR files or compile some source code into bytecode you’ll need to ...

Java has become virtually unavoidable in the last few years, and it’s installed on hundreds of millions of PCs around the world. A huge number of those installations are vulnerable versions of Java, ...

Update January 10, 2013: A zero-day exploit is in the wild, attacking fully patched versions of Java. You can protect yourself by disabling the Java plugin from your ...

The bugs could be exploited to cause a variety of problems, including a denial-of-service attack, the bypassing of certain security restrictions or to compromise a vulnerable system, according to ...

When the DST (Daylight Saving Time) period starts or ends, do your Java-powered applications show the wrong time of day or even malfunction? Do your department managers and system administrators break ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...