It’s the end of an era. Oracle has announced its intent to nail the coffin shut on the Java browser plugin. The company confirmed Wednesday that it expects to deprecate the plugin in JDK 9, slated for release in September, and JRE, in a future Java SE release. Dalibor Topic, a member of Oracle’s Java Strategy...

A Java serialization vulnerability disclosed more than a year ago figured to have a long shelf life. It lived in popular Java application development frameworks such as Apache Commons Collections—where it’s been patched—and not to mention widely deployed application servers such as Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Red Hat’s JBoss and others. PayPal this week put...

Oracle’s stewardship of Java has been scrutinized by the security community, which in 2013 languished through nearly a full year of targeted attacks exploiting zero days and other vulnerabilities in the platform. Since then, Oracle has improved the Java user experience by denying unsigned applets the ability to execute by default, and putting security restrictions...