More than one-third of professional Java developers surveyed by Perforce JRebel were using the eight-year-old version of Java for their main application. Despite arriving nearly eight years ago, Java ...

Although the release late last month of Java SE 7 did not come off without a hitch — serious bugs turned up in the release candidate and had to be fixed in the Update 1 release — the platform ...

Oracle released patches for 98 security issues across a wide range of products, including 14 in Java. This marks the last free patch for Java 7, and users are being encouraged to upgrade to version 8.