Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate ...

Installation Installation of the Java Plug-in through an Internet Explorer user’s browser is quite simple. Just include HTML as found in Listing A to prompt the user to download and install the ...

HTML downloads quickly because it focuses solely ... Many of these issues are solved via the Java Plug-in. However, even with the Java Plug-in, the user interaction remains constrained by the ...

Java also has a web plug-in that allows you to run these apps in your browser. Java is not, however, the same as JavaScript. In fact, they don't have a ton of similarities besides their names.

And last week, the death knell officially sounded for the Java browser plug-in. Recognizing that all browser plug-ins are on their way out, Oracle has finally cut bait. Eventually, this means we ...

According to Oracle, the Server JRE doesn’t contain the Java browser plug-in, a frequent target for Web-based exploits, the auto-update component or the installer found in the regular JRE package.

Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Mozilla can ...

It's time for consumers and enterprises to pull the plug on Java before Oracle sells it off and leaves it for the vultures of cyberspace. Client-side Java really never did make sense—not that it ...

To view our interactive tools properly, you need to be using a Java-enabled browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 3 or above, or Netscape v. 3 or above), preferably on a Windows 95 and higher ...

Security experts have long advised users to remove the Java plug-in from their Web browsers in order to protect themselves from the increasingly prevalent Web-based attacks that exploit Java ...