But the upgrade actually features technology considered critical to reviving the concept of client-side Java applets. Applet startup times are improved and applets can be turned into desktop ...

Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time but ...

The update is available in the Mac App Store. Of note, the updates “uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers.” New Macs do not come with Java installed and newer ...

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me ...

When Java burst on the scene, applets were the stars of the show. It was already clear that the HTML browser was a wonderfully universal application platform, although not a very rich one.

saying the update raises the default security level for Java applets from Medium to High — which means that "the user is always warned before any unsigned application is run to prevent silent ...

The NGSSoftware team has found a way to embed a Java applet within a GIF; the hybridized file is referred to as a GIFAR. Just to make it clear, this is a file extension of convenience and not the ...

The security breach at hand results from a flaw in the functionality of the Microsoft VM with respect to the way it handles a digitally signed Java applet. Under ideal conditions, a Java applet ...

In addition to security fixes, the new update will also make changes to how Java applets—Web-based Java applications—are handled and presented in Web browsers that have the Java plug-in enabled.