InfoWorld

JW Archives: How the Java virtual machine performs thread synchronization

All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...
The New York Times

JAVA NEXT STRONGHOLD TO FACE JAPAN'S DRIVE; Netherland Command Has Received Aid From Allied Sources and It Expects to Make Stiff Stand AIR POWER MOST IMPORTANT

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InfoWorld

Java Tip 120: Execute self-extracting JARs

For many years, Phil Katz’s archive creation, zip, has been one of the most popular file archiving formats. Sun has adopted the zip format as the basis for the Java Archive (JAR). Sun has extended the ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft and VirusTotal Team Up to Detect Malicious Signed MSI Files

Microsoft and Chronicle's VirusTotal have teamed up to better detect signed MSI files that have been modified to include malicious Java archives. When a developer creates a piece of software they ...