Oracle issued an emergency update to its widely-used Java web software on Sunday, but experts say it still contains security flaws.
Handling data streams in a dozen divergent formats from web pages to Java commands to wireless application protocol (WAP) overwhelms the cheap, simpleminded chips in most cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Initially seen as a way to enhance web pages, Java was soon talked of as a lingua franca for computers: small programs, called applets, written in Java would be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of operating system.
Or, they may want to access education-related web apps that require Java support.
The US-CERT, which is affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security, is advising people to disable Java in Web browsers.
Users need only a Java-compatible web browser and a network connection.
Java is used in web browsers to allow web developers to provide extra functionality, although its use has declined dramatically in recent years.
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But the combined potential of Netscape's web browser and Sun's Java faced Microsoft's full fury a response that led directly to the doors of Judge Jackson's court.
But with the new release ESRI will make big use of standard Web languages such as XML and Java to create maps far easier to use--and more fun--for clients.
The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.
Last fall, Apple won praise for a Mac update that removed a Java plugin from all Mac-compatible web browsers.
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In fact, the company has already taken steps to protect users of its computers from Java vulnerabilities by disabling the program by default in Web browsers on Mac OSX late last year.
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The Web offered a new model of content distribution, and HTML and Java were indeed major advances.
Maritz, with no installed base, wants the Java-coding hoards from Spring, or the open source communities around the Web application framework Ruby on Rails or the scalable network programming framework Node.js.
Because it allows otherwise incompatible machines to communicate, Java has worked its way onto an estimated 100 million cell phones worldwide, plus countless Web sites, computers and handhelds.
This left users running Java on Windows, Mac and even Linux opened to being hacked by simply visiting a malicious web page.
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