Ars Technica

Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries

Organizations using newer versions of Oracle’s Java framework woke up on Wednesday to a disquieting advisory: A critical vulnerability can make it easy for adversaries to forge TLS certificates and ...
ZDNet

Master the basics of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)

The Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) is now a core part of Java SDK 1.4. Basically, it's a set of packages that provide a framework and implementations for encryption, key generation and agreement, ...
InfoWorld

Better than reflection: Using method handles and variable handles in Java

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...
InfoWorld

Hands-on with Java and Wasm

Compiling Java code to WebAssembly is an efficient way to get it running in a web browser, and you get a serious performance boost. Let's check it out. WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a generalized, ...
TheServerSide

How to fix high Java CPU usage problems

One of the first indicators of a runtime performance problem is a high Java CPU usage report from a JVM profiler or Java monitoring tool. Unfortunately, high Java CPU utilization problems on Windows ...