Sun Microsystems has shipped patches to fix a batch of "highly critical" vulnerabilities in Sun Java JRE (Java Runtime Environment). The flaws, which affect Windows, Solaris and Linux users, can be ...

Good news: Oracle says the next major version of its Java software will no longer plug directly into the user’s Web browser. This long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of ...

The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications. It includes tools and libraries that enable developers to write, compile, and execute Java ...

Adobe Flash and Java are two downloads most of us have installed on our Windows computers, as they give us a richer internet and browsing experience. We have already seen how to manage Adobe Flash ...

Eclipse Foundation reports more than 12 million downloads of its Temurin Java SE binaries per month over the past three months. Move over, Oracle Java. Downloads of the Eclipse Foundation’s Temurin ...

Today, my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott published a scathing investigative report of how Oracle partners with shovelware companies in order to monetize the distribution of the Java JRE. Given that I work ...

I've got Java RE 1.3.0_02 installed (came with Opera). For some reason (even though I tried an unistall/re-install), the JRE keeps coming up as "Damaged" under "Status" in the "Downloaded Program ...