Browser vendors are moving away from plug-ins. Now Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology With browser plug-ins going the way of the ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

I could see some stubborn companies simply getting a version of a browser that works with java and never allowing either to update. It will be insecure as hell but they're already using java applets ...