Despite a flurry of recent updates to patch security holes in Oracle’s (ORCL) Java software, many experts fear it’s only a matter of time before the bug-prone product again exposes millions of ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. li> 1. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after ...

When I ran into Slava Pestov, the core developer of Jedit, on IRC, I asked him what he thought of some of the increasingly popular Java-based integrated development environments (IDE) such as Eclipse ...

Java is the new king of foistware, displacing Adobe and Skype from the top of the heap. And it earned that place with a combination of software update practices that are among the most user-hostile ...

Microsoft and Oracle just announced details of the “startling” partnership that Larry Ellison hinted about last week, working out an arrangement to let corporate customers run Oracle software on ...

Java is on the wane, at least according to one outfit that keeps on eye on the ever-changing world of computer programming languages. For more than a decade, it has dominated the Tiobe Programming ...

Although security flaws in Java have surfaced recently, the version identified as vulnerable is not one used with Penn’s core computing systems. On Jan. 10, the United States Department of Homeland ...

<b>commentary</b> A widely used online game and longtime Java ally is ditching Oracle's security-plagued programming technology. Your move, Minecraft. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. released two bundled packages of Java software on Wednesday — one for desktops and one for servers — along with pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java ...

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Nearly 75 percent of end users are running a version of Java in their browser that's at least six months out of date, Charles Renert, vice president of research and development for Websense, wrote on ...