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Java 7 provides new NIO.2 (JSR 203) features. A dramatic change in Java as part of this NIO.2 inclusion is the availability of a new and more powerful Java File I/O API. In this post, I look at using ...

In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the company announced Thursday. This is the ...

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 ...

IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty profile, v8.5, is now Java EE 7 certified, the company announced this week. The latest stable release of this lightweight profile of the app server for ...

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) ...