Java applets fuelled Java’s initial growth. The ability to download code over the network and run it on a variety of desktops offering a rich user interaction proved quite compelling. However, Java’s ...

Java Web Start can make deploying Java apps a breeze, but it may prevent those apps from accessing needed resources. Find out how to use Java Network Launching Protocol and application signing to ...

Java Web Start allows you to deploy full-featured applications using your Web browser, bypassing complex installation procedures. See if Web Start is right for your build and deployment process. In ...

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday at Internet World that it is shipping its Java Web Start software, which allows users to launch Java applications without worrying whether the Java platform is ...

A mechanism for delivering full-blown Java applications from a Web server. The programs are initially downloaded using the browser but are run outside of the browser ...

Many stories focus on what Google Chrome means for Microsoft, Firefox, and the fate of the current online world. But what does it mean for up-and-coming Web start-ups? Here are six implications for ...

Web-start.org is part of the Adware/ShortcutHijacker family of browser hijackers that modified your installed browser's shortcuts so that they use the web-start.org as the default home page. When ...

From an informal survey of my younger coworkers, I've learned that most of them don't bother with what used to be known as "personal portals" but now more commonly go by the term start pages.

Andreea Font has received funding from Science and Technology Facility Council and the Royal Society. After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, ...

If you’re seeing Microsoft’s Office apps appear in your Start menu as web apps, you’re probably wondering why they’re there. The answer is, they’re not—and Microsoft is dealing with the problem. Last ...