Users around the world have started automatically translated into Java 7

The company Oracle, which now controls the development of cross-platform application runtime Java, today announced a new distribution of the Java version 7 through the web-site Java.com. Thus, Java 7 is a standard execution environment of Java-based applications for all who choose to download the Java environment from the official site.


This is the first step in the gradual transfer of all users of Java to the new platform, so that in the next few months, all users with auto-update enabled will receive Java 7 as the execution environment by default.

Oracle has always recommends using the latest version of Java and remove older versions since only the actual assembly JRE provide access to new features, capabilities, and most importantly - the most secure version of the runtime. These recommendations are important prerequisites: in recent months and years encountered many cases of vulnerability in the Java runtime environment became loopholes for all sorts of attacks on private and corporate users.

It is worth noting that the full deployment of Java 7 across the user base began a week after the release of the fourth update to the platform Java Standard Edition (Java SE 7 Update 4) and technology JavaFX 2.1. The first in line to have updated versions of development tools Java Development Kit (JDK) and JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the environment Mac OS X, which suffered the most recent viruses that penetrate into the system through a vulnerability in older versions of Java.

Oracle is continuing to work on merging their virtual machine Java-Oracle Java HotSpot JVM and Oracle JRockit JVM into a single product. In particular, many technical innovations from Oracle JRockit found their way into recent versions of Oracle Java HotSpot 23 and the open version of the OpenJDK.

Among other things, the environment Java SE 7 Update 4 offers developers a new algorithm for automatic garbage collection in memory, called Garbage First (G1). In the meantime, an interim release of Java SE 6u32 has received a number of operational changes and new data on the standard time zones Olson 2011L.

For embedded systems, Oracle introduced regular assemblies runtime environments Java SE for Embedded 7 Update 4 and Java SE for Embedded 6 Update 32. A new release of JavaFX 2.1 includes JavaFX SDK development tools for Windows and Mac OS X. A set of components JavaFX SDK contains everything you need to create a JavaFX-enabled applications, the latest multimedia technologies, including playback of MPEG-4 container with video in the H.264/AVC format and audio format AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Among other differences between JavaFX 2.1 is to provide technology support WebView to refer to Java methods from scripting javascript. This technology allows the transfer of the tasks of interactive web-based application server for Java-based applications without any intermediate steps.