Oracle has quietly ended all support for Java on Windows XP. As a result, the quarterly security updates scheduled for July 15 will not include any fixes for Windows XP. In an FAQ on the Java site the ...

The end is near for Java 7, a nearly 11-year-old release of standard Java. Oracle is set to discontinue extended support for the platform at the end of July 2022. With the cessation of official ...

Java is at the center of yet another security storm after Polish security researchers found not one, but two new separate zero-day flaws in the Web plug-in software. Web users are once again warned to ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

The latest updates, Java 7 update 17 and Java 6 update 43, addressed CVE-2013-1493 and a related vulnerability (CVE-2013-0809), Oracle said in its security advisory released Monday. Both ...

Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update released Thursday that can be exploited to escape the ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...