Java Platform, SE (Standard Edition) 7 has been passed this week by the JCP Executive Committee for SE/EE (Enterprise Edition), by a vote of 13 in favor and 1 — Google — against.

JSR (Java Specification Request) 336, for Java SE 7 (Java Platform, Standard Edition), and JSR 337, for Java SE 8, were given initial approvals after a one-week extension of voting by the JCP ...

Java 7 SE will no longer get extended support, users need to adapt to version 8 “Community support will end when Java 7 reaches the end of service on July 29, 2022.

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.

Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard® and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS ...

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle Corp. announced today the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software ...

Security research company Security Explorations has issued a description of a new critical security flaw in Java SE 5 build 1.5.0_22-b03, Java SE 6 build 1.6.0_35-b10, and the latest Java SE 7 ...

“The impact of this issue is critical—we were able to successfully exploit it and achieve a complete Java security sandbox bypass in the environment of Java SE 5, 6, and 7,” Adam Gowdiak of ...

This kind of attack used to affect the Java virtual machine (VM) in its early days, in the late ’90s, he said via email. “It’s one of those risks one should protect against in the first ...