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For the past 6 articles, we've been talking about the current state of web browser security, both in general and as it applies to different popular browsers.

Oracle has followed up its quarterly Critical Patch Update with an additional security advisory for its Java Cloud Service.

Azul Systems , Inc . , the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today announced its participation at the ninth annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference this week in Philadelphia.

Coding and testing are often considered separate areas of expertise. In this comprehensive guide, author and Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be equally adept at understanding how code behaves in the JVM, as well as the tunings likely to help its performance.

Behavior Driven Development is an approach that uses conversions around concrete examples to discover, describe and formalize the behavior of a system.

The third edition of David Heffelfinger's Java EE book has been recently released.

The following are the top 10 documents that are linked to SRs as solutions, for JDBC issues, from Jan 2014 thru Mar 2014.

MapDB is an Apache-licensed open source database specifically designed for Java developers.

Great post and interesting discussion by all. Eric Schmidt used to say in reference to Java: "in software we often solve problems by creating a new layer of abstraction which then allows for innovation both above and below the line."

Looking for new challenges? Want to get back to the roots of Computer Science? How about starting to explore Internet of Things? No doubt it is one of the fastest growing area of IT and an excellent opportunity to explode the innovation and creativeness.

This tip is all about writing an XML file and extending its nodes further, so that it can be extended well, upto an extent.

Coverity, a company specializing in software quality and security testing solutions, finds that open source programs tend to have fewer errors than proprietary programs.

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix various security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk ... (more)

PanARMENIAN.Net - Oracle has released a swathe of security updates culminating in a massive 104 new security fixes for products including Java, Fusion Middleware and MySQL, according to ZDNet.

Nashorn, pronounced "nass-horn," is German for "rhinoceros," and it's one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II.

Spring is a widely used framework in enterprise applications development and includes different components such as Spring ORM, Spring JDBC and more, to support various features.

Sun Microsystems expects that technologies like its JavaFX Script scripting language, and JavaFX Mobile software for mobile devices, will help bridge the digital divide.

Geertjan Wielenga is a Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Developer Tools group living & working in Amsterdam.

The report details the analysis of 750 million lines of open source software code through the Coverity Scan service and commercial usage of the CoverityA Development Testing Platform, the largest sample size that the report has studied to date.

David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology and an ardent US based Java EE/GlassFish advocate.