stand-alone Java applications. Instead, it lets programmers use the Java language to write code that works only with the .Net platform. It's a Java-like language for .Net, and it will tend to ...

Indeed, as operating system vendors get better about patching their own flaws, malware authors are increasingly turning to third-party code to get their dirty work done, and Java is high on the list.

The Java API library is complex in nature, and it easily makes developers go haywire. To compensate for the problem, Java 8 rewrites the whole API from scratch.