Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43. Today ...

Java has powered the world's most critical software for nearly three decades — from banking platforms and healthcare systems to enterprise applications and Android apps.

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...