Java users can visit Oracle’s Java.com Web site to ensure that they have the latest version — Java 6 update 26 — installed on their computers.

Oracle brought in $2.853 billion in revenues for cloud and had an $8.9 billion (£6.07 billion) profit for the year. But those numbers don't tell the whole story.

But while Oracle is addressing the issue in Java, serialization also affects other programming environments like .NET, Ruby, and others, where the issue remains dormant.

Read more about Oracle Java licensing As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK: James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but ...

Major features in Java 19 will make it easier for Java developers to build applications that interface with non-Java code, among other capabilities in the 10th edition of the platform’s six ...