Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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Although the release late last month of Java SE 7 did not come off without a hitch — serious bugs turned up in the release candidate and had to be fixed in the Update 1 release — the platform ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

The Netbeans 7 integrated development environment is now available to download, bringing with it support for the forthcoming Java SE Java Development Kit 7 and HTML 5 editing tools, Oracle said on ...

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Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java? Among the most ...

I have a specific application that controls an external device (not PC related) that needs Java RE v1.7 to work. Apparently between Oracle & M$, neither are compatible or supported in one way or ...