Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest desktop and server versions of the Java Runtime ...

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 ...

The battle between Sun and Microsoft over inclusion of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Windows wages on. At stake, according to a U.S. District Court, is the fairness of the fight between Java ...

Are you getting the Windows cannot find javaw.exe error message while a Java-based app? Javaw.exe is an executable component integrated within the Oracle Java Runtime ...

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those JAR ...

Great! Since the J2SE 1.4 compiler seems like the best choice, I want to use it for all my Java programming even if my target runtime platform is an earlier version, just to benefit from such fixes ...

The recent zero-day exploit for Java left enterprises scrambling to protect their networks from the active exploits out in the wild. The effectiveness of the exploit, its active use by exploit kits ...