BEA Systems has created a version of its Java application server designed for virtualization technology, using an approach that cuts the operating systems out of the picture. At the company's ...

“Java is a cross-platform language so the same exploit could run on various [operating systems] and architectures,” Pynnonen adds in his alert, issued on 23 November.

Typically, they interface with both the operating system (OS) and the hardware to give application-level programs access to devices in some standard fashion. (An up front warning: some types of device ...