The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift. Oracle Java has been the most popular way to run enterprise Java applications and workloads for years.

The fix is to force the application to run in 32-bit mode; so unless you need 64-bit capability with your Java applications, you should also look this option as well as in addition to the advice ...

A lot of Java applications today can be extended viz. adding new features to the application by writing "plug-ins" in Java. Lee Chuk-Munn shows how. Written by Lee Chuk-Munn, ContributorApril 7 ...

Many apps fail to make full use of the capabilities of the JIT compiler.In this article we investigate some simple tricks to identify issues that may be making your application unfriendly to JIT.

RASP in Java-based systems RASP’s effectiveness at mitigating vulnerabilities makes it a strong fit for any comprehensive cyber security strategy. Because of Java’s ubiquity in the enterprise ...

A popular Java library has a serious vulnerability, discovered over nine months ago, that continues to put thousands of Java applications and servers at risk of remote code execution attacks. The ...

Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all parts of the system and software. Not doing so ...

Visually, you have a macro running inside the host application. We can implement macros in Java SE6 with JSR-223. Let us assume that we have a simple text editor like so: ...

You might be a Java purist, but as Microsoft's .Net grows more popular so does the demand to migrate Java or Visual J++ (VJ++) applications to Visual J# or Visual C#. Several existing client ...

I am making a small transfer utility in Java and I want the user to be able to drag a file into the window to have it start the transfer.I created a DropTarget, set it to be active, and then in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Waratek responded quickly and launched Java Application Security which detects and ...