As enterprises reevaluate their Java strategy and migrate away from Oracle Java, many are turning to OpenJDK distributions.

Macros enable one to customize applications so that the operations they perform can be shared among users in an organization or over the Internet.

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.

Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) is a next-generation cyber security technology designed to redress some of the weak points of application security. Unlike firewalls or code analysis ...

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 ...

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.

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the ...

<p>We recently wrote about reinstalling Java to correct problems with various applications including Mail and Safari. While this may be useful for some users, Apple has released a knowledgebase ...

Scaling Your Java EE Applications -- Part 2 Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all ...

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 ...