Tooling inside VisualStudiois acommonrequest, for an example of the features you can look to our eclipse plug-in for Spring Java, butwehave notyet committed to delivery that functionality.
Both exploits take advantage of the Blackhole exploit kit, an off-the-shelf hacking tool that was updated last month to prey on the Java vulnerability, such that users who run the Java plug-in can have their PC entirely compromised via their browser when they visit an infected site.
Apple pointed out in its statement that Macs running the most recent operating system, OS X Lion, have not come with Java pre-installed and that the computers automatically disable the plug-in after 35-days of inactivity.