Security woes leave Java 8 delayed from:(jaxenter.com)

      Java 8 is unlikely to ship until next year as a consequence of the platform’s recent applet-based security issues. According to Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform, Oracle’s efforts to patch these holes “have inevitably taken engineers away from working on Java 8”.

With the planned September release “no longer achievable”, Reinhold wrote on his blog, something has to give: either dropping

Java 8 now set for Spring 2014 release form:(jaxenter.com)

It’s official - the next major version of Java is now scheduled to arrive on 18 March 2014, six months late than originally planned.

Last week, Chief Architect Mark Reinhold explained that JDK 8 would likely be delayed after priority