Oracle has issued the first release candidate of Java Standard Edition version 7. Barring the last-minute discovery of any severe bugs, the company expects to release the final version of Java 7 on ...

Oracle, which acquired the NetBeans IDE as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year, said the new NetBeans IDE 7.0 release demonstrates its continuing commitment to the NetBeans community ...

Java 7 has landed, with a modest set of new features and a few major improvements as well. What can you expect from JRuby running on Java 7? The biggest changes in Java 7 are not related to the Java ...

Is the design of Oracle's Java 7 security sandbox backwards? That charge was leveled by programmer Jerry Jongerius, who last week released a Java Code Signing Failure alert detailing how Java security ...

In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java SE 7 (Java Platform Standard Edition 7), the company announced Thursday. This is the ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the ...

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.