Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those JAR ...

Microsoft announced that it will block older ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, starting with Java. Next week’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins will not only bring nine new security ...

Oracle's Java Platform Group created a March Madness-style bracket to mark Java's 25th anniversary, substituting JEPs for the college basketball teams and using Twitter polls to determine the winners ...

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates coming ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

Java interfaces are different from classes, and it’s important to know how to use their special properties in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces the difference between classes and interfaces ...

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. “Having support for a Java platform on Azure is ...

The Foreign Function & Memory API in Java provides significantly easier access to functions in C libraries than the outdated ...