In this article, I will primarily look at Java Web Start. However, to begin I will provide some background on the motivation behind the technology, and compare and contrast different approaches ...

Applications launched through Web Start will find that many methods that worked fine directly atop the Java virtual machine will fail with SecurityExceptions inside the Web Start imposed sandbox.

Isn’t Java Web Start (JWS) supposed to allow web-based distribution of applications? So why would one want to distribute a Java Web Start (JWS) application via CD-ROM? Well, for a number of reasons.

Java Web Start is an application-deployment technology that gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a single click from your Web browser.

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday at Internet World that it is shipping its Java Web Start software, which allows users to launch Java applications without worrying whether the Java platform is ...

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The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in. The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly ...

That's Java. One of the world's most popular programming languages, Java is crucial to web development and serves as an excellent stepping stone into the world of programming.

Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web.

The US government advised people to stop using Java last week Oracle issued an emergency update to its widely-used Java web software on Sunday, but experts say it still contains security flaws ...