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 ...

Java is a computer programming language that is found on desktops to servers to mobile devices and also smart cards. The Java application runs on most of the systems including Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Great! Since the J2SE 1.4 compiler seems like the best choice, I want to use it for all my Java programming even if my target runtime platform is an earlier version, just to benefit from such fixes ...

Alexander Belokrylov is CEO of BellSoft. Accomplished expert in Java technology and IT leadership with over 10 years of experience. The modernization of Java applications is a top focus for enterprise ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...