In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...

Apple's latest Java update requires you periodically enable the Java plug-in manually. Here is how this works in OS X. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid ...

An impending update to Java might sound like just an incremental release, based on its cumbersome naming: Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10 (Java SE 6 u10). But the upgrade actually features ...

Apple on Tuesday rolled out two Java updates, one for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and another for OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the latter offering improved security by uninstalling the Apple ...

When Java burst on the scene, applets were the stars of the show. It was already clear that the HTML browser was a wonderfully universal application platform, although not a very rich one. Applets ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the ...

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 ...

Apple today released updated versions of Java 6 for OS X, bringing additional improvements to security, reliability, and compatibility. This is a standard update to Java 6, which is distributed by ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

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 ...