Java applets have been used for a variety of purposes since they were first introduced in the 1990s. While they offer many benefits, they also come with some security risks. In this article, we'll ...

Java Applets? Isn't that like old man technology? I thought it was passed over years ago. What exactly is that again? Java applets started out as an amazing new browser enhancement that would for the ...

Java applets have been used for a variety of purposes since they were first introduced in the 1990s. While they offer many benefits, they also come with some security risks. In this article, we'll ...

“You can’t stop the wind. But you can build windmills”. Dutch Proverb. The use of small programs such as Java applets and Active-X controls in Web pages is ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

Once upon a time, Java ran inside browsers. It was the Java Applet. Although you rarely see them now, in the 1990s, Applets were a quite futuristic technology. What could be done with the HTML of that ...

The Java security sandbox is indeed closely related to Java applets, but it is a mechanism that applies to the Java security model as a whole, not just to applets. Java applets are small programs that ...

Apple's latest Java update requires you periodically enable the Java plug-in manually. Here is how this works in OS X. To tackle the recent Flashback malware for OS X ...

An impending update to Java might sound like just an incremental release, based on its cumbersome naming: Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10 (Java SE 6 u10). But the upgrade actually features ...