Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux ...

The recent Flashback Trojan exposed a problem that OS X has with Java—specifically, that the development of Java on the Mac hasn’t kept pace with the Java for Windows or Linux. Flashback uses an ...

In MacOS, the bin/Java is under the sub-folder - 'Contents/home' - of the root folder of the installed path. The ask is to update this script to set the devops well-known Java variables correctly for ...

Apple just announced that it is joining Oracle’s OpenJDK project to open source the Java technology for Mac OS X. OpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language.

News that Oracle will now provide Mac users with Java updates at the same time as they are available for Windows and Linux, has been celebrated, not least because it comes in the wake of the Flashback ...

What steps can reproduce the bug? To do java development I need to have the sandbox be able to run java/jdk related commands. The java command is /usr/bin/java and is ...