There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

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 ...

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more intelligent ...

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 ...

As we noted earlier, there’s a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even ...