The standards process is used to evolve existing Java specifications and to create new ones, to improve its security, for example, or to add support for new XML standards.

The much-criticized JCP (Java Community Process), which maps out procedures for amending officially sanctioned Java technologies, is set for a face-lift that includes greater transparency and the ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Oracle has released a critical Java update that fixes more than 50 security vulnerabilities. Considering the ruckus over the past fortnight, along with repeated warnings from the U.S. Dept. of ...

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.

It’s time for another Java update — and it’s a relatively big one. Oracle is releasing fixes for 42 security bugs in its highly vulnerable Java programming language today.

Oracle’s most recent quarterly Java security update, issued in July, contained 20 fixes. That total was down significantly from the 37 Java fixes shipped in the April update and 36 issued in ...