<p>The impression persists that Java is still plagued with security problems after more than a year of issues popping up, but Oracle wants to assure the public that things actually have gotten much better lately.</p><p>Officials of the company said Monday at the JavaOne technical conference in San Francisco that Java security had been neglected years ago and that the nature of software makes software subject to security issues. But Oracle is addressing the problems and has made it easier to upgrade to the newest, safer versions of Java and get security patches, they said.</p><p>Most of the security issues actually date back to more than a decade ago, said Cameron Purdy, Oracle vice president of cloud applications and Java EE (Enterprise Edition). Oracle only became the steward of Java early in 2010, when it acquired Java founder Sun Microsystems.</p><p>"The perception is that these are new issues. Most of these are problems with JDK [Java Development Kit] 1.4 and earlier," Purdy said. "And our goal is that there will be no, zero, absolutely none, no security vulnerabilities in Java." JDK 1.4 was released in February 2002, according to Wikipedia.</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/oracle-were-getting-java-security-under-control-227404">Keep reading...</a></p>