Jeff Friesen puts the newer, faster applet to the test in this companion to his JavaWorld feature: “Are applets making a comeback?” Here you can get a short introduction to rich Internet applet ...

Web developers are plagued by the inconsistent browser rendering of HTML and JavaScript, yet most continue to use HTML forms to build GUI front-ends. In this article returning JavaWorld contributor Dr ...

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming language.

Apple on Tuesday rolled out two Java updates, one for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and another for OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the latter offering improved security by uninstalling the Apple ...

For various reasons, Java applets have never worked all that well but we some folks use them anyway, for example in business charting and other graphic visualizations. Over the past few years ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the ...