Red Hat announced that OpenJDK 7 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 broke all earlier records of Critical Java Operations per Second performance metric on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark. This is expected to show the much faster java execution speeds with OpenJDK software on the RHEL servers.
After the American government warned users of the security risk posed by the recently discovered Java vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild, Oracle quickly came into action and posted a security update within 3 days of the news spreading worldwide.
After finding a critical Java vulnerability that is already being exploited worldwide, the american government has asked all users to turn off Java in their respective browsers to avoid being held hostage to malicious software.
Apple in a recent update to its Mac OS X operating system, removed the Java browser plugin altogether. It has now asked users to download the Java plugin directly from Oracle’s website, which puts the onus on the user and Oracle to keep the plugin updated.
Google has just released J2ObjC, an open-source tool that can convert Java code to Objective-C code.
David Yin, General Manager – Developer Business, vserv.mobi sheds light on monetisation opportunities available for app developers, the unique AppWrapper product, and platforms.
For nearly everyone, it’s time to dump Java. Once promising, it has outlived its usefulness in the browser, and has become a nightmare that delights cyber-criminals at the expense of computer users.
Amazon has just added support for Python applications to their Elastic Beanstalk service.
