Apple has released Java for OS X 2013-005, which “delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility for Java SE 6”. The update is available in the Mac App Store. Of note, the updates ...

When used with ODS, procedures GCHART, GCONTOUR, GMAP, GPLOT, and G3D enable you to specify DEVICE=JAVA on a GOPTIONS statement to generate graphs that are Java applets. These same procedures enable ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.

Java’s code-signing requirements have proven to be a bust, security researchers say, and now even longtime developers are losing faith in the programming language. Why would a software company require ...

Software from Oracle that converts a program in Java bytecode (intermediate language) into machine language and executes it. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the runtime engine of the Java Platform, ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03. Java SE consists of a virtual machine, which must be used to run Java programs, together with a set of libraries (or ...