Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

Oracle’s Java Management Service can shine a light on which versions of Java you’re running, what apps are running on them, and which installs are outdated. Oracle is making the discovery capabilities ...

Delete your old Java installers: they could be compromised. If your downloads folder is a mess of installers and documents from ages past, you might occasionally check it before downloading a piece of ...

The new updates, Java 7 Update 15 and Java 6 Update 41, address five additional vulnerabilities that couldn’t be included in the emergency Java update that Oracle released on Feb. 1 due to time ...

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 ...

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 ...

GUEST OPINION: Over the past five years, Oracle has made four rounds of changes to its Java licensing and pricing policy for what was previously a free programming language and toolset used by ...

Oracle will speed up its patching cycle for Java. “Oracle’s intent is to continue to accelerate the release of Java fixes, particularly to help address the security worthiness of the Java Runtime ...