Dalibor Topic announced that With Java SE 7 and JDK 7 being released, and with OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 reference implementation, that it was finally time to retire the non open source ...

The default constructor in Java initializes primitive types to their binary equivalent of zero and reference types to null. How to use Java's default constructor. Although the default constructor in ...

What is a parameterized constructor in Java? The default constructor is perfect to perform the exact function that it describes: assign defaults. But in real-world Java applications, the program ...

In 7U11, Oracle changed the default security setting in Java from Medium to High, preventing unsigned Java Web applications from executing automatically; users are warned before unsigned applets ...

Canonical has announced that OpenJDK 11 has become the default Java package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, replacing OpenJDK 10. The move comes days after Red Hat announced its stewardship of OpenJDK 11.

Java 7 Update 11 also brings about one other change to beef up the security that already existed in Java. With the newest patch, the default Java Security Level will be changed from medium to high.