Roughly 40 percent of all IT projects surveyed in a September 2000 Gartner Group study failed to meet business requirements. The average cancelled IT project was scheduled to last 27 weeks and ...

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It came to our attention that the Java application blocker is prompting that self-assigned or untrusted applications have been blocked due to security settings. Due to this issue, some of the ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Many software developers do not pay enough attention to the shutdown (also referred to as undeploy) of the applications they write. In fact, the most popular shutdown mechanism is to execute Ctl+C or ...

My favorite type of onsite meetings are those where I help to solve a major problem. A couple of days ago I was visiting a large online gaming company. Most of what they do revolves around a web-based ...

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday. Thirty-four vulnerabilities ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

The latest Java update released Tuesday includes new prompts warning users of potentially malicious applets, in addition to patches for 42 vulnerabilities, all but three of which are remotely ...