A recently released update to Chrome has brought a plan to the forefront that has been brewing behind the scenes since 2013: the deprecation of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface ...

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...

Browser plugins have long been a source of headaches for IT security, often requiring monthly — and quite often emergency — patches to plug the security holes in ...

Java Plug-in is essential for running applets in Firefox because the browser doesn’t provide a JRE—including a JVM—of its own. Because this article presents applets that demonstrate different Java ...

When used with ODS, procedures GCHART, GCONTOUR, GMAP, GPLOT, and G3D enable you to specify DEVICE=JAVA on a GOPTIONS statement to generate graphs that are Java applets. These same procedures enable ...

Some day your boss may ask you to integrate a Java applet with some JavaScript code. How would you accomplish that task? For starters, you should know the basics of communication between JavaScript ...