Oracle shipped Java SE 7 with a serious, showstopping bug, and who was the first to alert the Java community? The Apache Foundation. Oh, the irony. This is the same Apache Foundation that resigned ...

In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java SE 7 (Java Platform Standard Edition 7), the company announced Thursday. This is the ...

Oracle today announced the release of several new Java software packages, including the new Java SE 7 Update 6 that brings full support for Java SE 7 to OS X for the first time. The release follows ...

Oracle released its first full version of Java on Thursday, but developers have reported bugs that can crash virtual machines, corrupt data and cause errors in applications. Java Standard Edition 7 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Security Explorations, a Poland-based vulnerability research firm, claim to have found two new vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software’s ...

Last week, a researcher going by the name "kafeine" spotted a number of sites that were abusing a zero-day vulnerability in Java 7 Update 10. In the wild, the exploitation was confirmed by several ...

The latest Java update released Tuesday includes new prompts warning users of potentially malicious applets, in addition to patches for 42 vulnerabilities, all but three of which are remotely ...

Oracle Corporation ORCL is reportedly tightening up on the software audit front, with respect to the usage of Java Standard Edition (Java SE), a very popular version of Java readily available for ...

Oracle has filed the first of two new Java Specification Requests (JSRs) meant to "update and revitalize" the Java Community Process (JCP). JSR 348, entitled "Towards a new version of the Java ...

Go ahead and update Java—or disable it if you don’t remember the last time you actually used it on the Web: Oracle’s latest patch, released Tuesday, fixes 25 vulnerabilities in the aging platform, ...