The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...

The ActiveState catalog grew to 40 million components in mid 2025 when it introduced coverage for Java and R in addition to Python, Perl, Ruby, and Tcl. As of January 2026, the company has expanded ...

Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ...

ActiveX is a powerful technology for Office apps, but its inherent risks pose serious security threats. To combat this, Microsoft is making it harder to enable ActiveX. Microsoft is making it harder ...

In context: Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996 during Windows 95 days. So, in technological terms, it's ancient. Redmond designed it as a developer framework, allowing users to embed interactive ...

When Microsoft Office 2024 launches in October, ActiveX will be turned off by default, according to Bleeping Computer. The change affects desktop versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Visio, and ...

There are various instances of this issue that we get such as JAVAC’, JRE, ‘MVN’, JAR’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file, ‘Java’ is not recognized as ...

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Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

More than three-quarters of applications written in Java and .NET have at least one vulnerability from the OWASP Top 10, a list of software weaknesses that developers typically use as a baseline for ...