Oracle's Java System Preferences contains similar options for enabling, disabling, and otherwise configuring the installed Java runtimes. Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNET With this latest update ...

Apple's latest Java update requires you periodically enable the Java plug-in manually. Here is how this works in OS X.

The four Java control panel settings are security settings introduced in Java SE7 Update 10 in October 2012 to control the access unsigned Java apps have to the system. It allows a user to set ...