For a long time, I was among the voices who called for computer users to disable Java from their systems. The security risks in Java were far too great, I and others said, and outweighed any benefits ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.

Oracle earlier this week released Java 7 Update 10 that adds new configuration options, which should serve to significantly beef up Web browser security. The key improvement here revolves around the ...