Newer JVM-compatible languages like Scala, Groovy, and JRuby are better suited to creating internal DSLs than the Java language itself. Find out why in this final article in Venkat Subramaniam's ...

Java has a major competitive advantage that .NET lacks: the ability to safely run on-line demos, via both Java WebStart (JWS) and applets. The fact that this isn’t already being leveraged in an ...

After years of bad press caused by security problems associated with the component, Oracle is eliminating the Java browser plug-in in its JDK 9 release.

Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle.

The last time hackers found a hole in Java’s browser plugin so bad that it sparked a warning from Homeland Security—which was less than five months ago, mind you—I wrote that you should ...