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 ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

When a Windows upgrade exposed hidden Java dependencies, Australia’s grid operator discovered it was one audit away from ...

In January, Oracle replaced the Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with the new Java SE Universal subscription that charges enterprise on a per employee metric instead of a per processor or per ...

‘Having to license your entire employee count is not reasonable because you could have 10,000 employees, maybe only 500 of them need Java. And maybe you only have a couple of servers for a couple of ...

When installing Oracle on Linux, and not using the silent install file, you need to be able to launch X11 sessions from the server to an X11 client (your desktop).<BR><BR>Typically the Linux server is ...