Oracle has announced that it is finally killing off its Java browser plugin. The company has stated that the technology will be removed from the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) in the near future.

The days of bloated, bug ridden, error prone web browser plugins are finally and truly numbered. Just last month, Adobe has practically started Flash's retirement ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...