Both Leopard and Snow Leopard are getting Java updates today: OS X 10.5 getting its 9th, while OS X 10.6 is getting a 4th update to improve reliability, security, and updates Java SE 6 on 64-bit ...

But Java SE 7, and all later versions of the software for Mac OS X, will come from Oracle, not Apple. One security researcher thinks that would make Mac users less secure in the long run.

The unwelcome Ask extension shows up as part of the installer if a Mac user downloads Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac. In my tests on a Mac running that latest release of OS X, the installer added an ...

The point is that even though Oracle doesn't offer the Mac WebStart/applet system directly to users, Apple and Oracle seem to have bridged the gap, but releasing Java SE 6 Update 33 simultaneously ...

Also released on Tuesday were Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 4, a 74.81MB download, and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 9, which is 119.83MB.

Oracle noted that the "OpenJDK Community continues to host the development of Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and JDK 8, the prototype reference implementation of Java SE 8. Oracle has also started the ...