The days of bloated, bug ridden, error prone web browser plugins are finally and truly numbered. Just last month, Adobe has practically started Flash's retirement ...

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Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

Browser plugins have long been a source of headaches for IT security, often requiring monthly — and quite often emergency — patches to plug the security holes in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

Oracle has announced that it is finally killing off its Java browser plugin. The company has stated that the technology will be removed from the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) in the near future.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Client-side JavaScript frameworks are all the rage, but they aren’t always the right answer if ...

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar with ...

Researchers have found a shortcoming in key security protection recently introduced in the browser plugin for Oracle’s Java software framework, a flaw that makes it easier for attackers to sneak ...

Oracle has released a new version of the Java Development Kit which includes a number of security improvements. The major change in JDK 7u10 is the ability to prevent any Java application from running ...

Java is a nearly-ubiquitous technology that has played an important role in the development of the Internet and cross-platform applications. It has offered a mature, net-savvy development framework ...

JAVA! THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! FREE US, OR DIE! Star wars aside, mandatory applications at work necessitate Java remaining on my workstations. Secondarily, there are many websites I visit that use ...