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

Alert! New security attack via Java applet Microsoft Corp. has identified a serious vulnerability associated with the Microsoft Virtual Machine.

“Applets are back!” was the beginning line of Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology, published in June 2008 in conjunction with the release of Java SE 6 Update 10. This “next ...