Until recently, it has been quite difficult to create Java based tray icons applications. JavaSE 6 (aka Mustang) now supports tray icon development with the TrayIcon API.

With the plug-in platform, a ground-up rewrite is under way, said Ken Russell, from the Java SE deployment team. “This will change how your poker game in [a] Web browser is run as well as your ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...