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