To use Java Web Start’s full feature set, some minimal installation and configuration is required on both the server and the client. We will look at each step using some simple examples, as ...

That being said, if you must use Java, do not use the one that comes from Java.com, which is the variant that includes the shovelware install that Ed has written about.

For the Java 6 web crawler implementation we’ll use a fixed-thread pool of 64 threads, which we create by calling the Executors.newFixedThreadPool(int) factory method.

(See Sun's Java Web Start page for more information on installing and using Java Web Start.) One of the biggest advantages JNLP applications have over standard client applications is that JNLP ...

Using Java securely on Windows 11/10 In case you need to use Java and you are running Java on your system, it is necessary to follow certain best practices to safeguard your computer. In this ...

I will concede that it is possible to use Java to create small applications that are downloaded over the Web and run within Web browsers. Over the past month, I've actually run into two such Java ...

AgileIT has delivered a beta release of its ServiceLayer technology, which is a run-time Java framework that enables users to dynamically add Web services to an existing Java application using a ...

Below are instructions for unplugging Java from whatever Web browser you may use to surf the Web. These instructions were originally posted as a how-to in response to this piece: Zero-Day Java ...

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming language.