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.

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 ...

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 ...