It was always possible for hackers to create self-signed applets, and it is also possible to secure your Java applications against them; not perfectly, but sufficiently.

Java applets were and still are great despite technologies such as DHTML, Flash, ActiveX, and other products. I can only hope that Sun will be successful in reviving the interest in applets within ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.