Deutsche Bank London helped create a new application self-defense tool to lock down and virtually patch its Java-based enterprise applications -- even the oldest ones.

ME Bank has gone live with the latest version of Cadencie card management software and will use the Java platform to help reduce the time it takes to issue new cards and payment products.

Australia's St. George Bank confirmed that until customers using Windows XP or Explorer 6 download Java, the bank would be closed to them.

The phase-out of Microsoft's Java virtual machine from products such as Windows XP is being blamed for the inaccessibility of an Australian Internet banking site for some users. A online banking ...