Oracle has announced plans to kill off Java browser plugins - but only after it releases Java Development Kit (JDK) 9. The company announced the shift in a Java Platform Group blog post, which ...

Java’s browser plugin, the software attackers just love to exploit, is going away. Oracle, who owns Java, is retiring the plugin a year from now in their next SDK update.

Dalibor Topic, a member of Oracle’s Java Strategy Team, posted the news in an entry to the Java Platform Group’s Product Management blog, acknowledging the company’s move toward a “plugin ...

Modern browsers are moving quickly to drop support for plugins, and Oracle sees the writing on the wall. This fall, the Java browser plugin will begin its farewell, the company confirmed in a ...

Oracle has announced that it will deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9. The technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release. The company said that by late ...

Modern browsers are moving quickly to drop support for plugins, and Oracle sees the writing on the wall. This fall, the Java browser plugin will begin its farewell, the company confirmed in a ...

The much-maligned Java browser plugin, source of so many security flaws over the years, is to be killed off by Oracle. It will not be mourned. Oracle, which acquired Java as part of its 2010 ...

Java Applets, which rely on the Java browser plugin, have been particularly affected. These applets were once a popular way to deliver interactive content and applications over the web.

With the demise of Adobe Flash on the way, Oracle has announced via a very short blog post that come JDK 9 later this year, the Java browser plugin will be deprecated.