The internet as we see it today is still a fairly recent phenomenon. In 2016, even the most pedestrian, phone book-looking website aspires to be something more than merely an “entry” within the grand ...

This article is the sequel to Jeff Friesen's previous article on Java Plug-in, " Plug into Java with Java Plug-in" (JavaWorld, June 1999). It focuses on one of the more recent Java Plug-ins in the ...

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

Wikipedia may be the most high-profile example of a user-edited wiki site, but millions of people around the world are setting up wikis for knowledge-sharing on a smaller scale. In this article, ...

For example, if you have a drop down box on your webpage that contains a list of cities (for example), you can do a couple of things. Hard code all those cities into an html select element, write some ...

Ok, so I just saw the news that Apple has released "Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2." An applet that previously failed only in NN/OS X because of a java plugin version problem still didn't work after ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the ...

As we noted earlier, there’s a rather large security hole with Java in Web browsers in all versions of OS X. Because of the way Java applets work, you can be attacked by simply visiting (not even ...