Oracle's January 2012 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for 78 new security vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Oracle products families, Eric Maurice posts. These included Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JDEdwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Virtualization, Oracle Sun product suite, and Oracle MySQL. He points out that security fixes for Java SE continue to be released on a different schedule because of commitments made before the completion of the Sun acquisition.
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Two patch updates were released in October 2011, reports Eric Maurice in his oracle.com/security blog. One is the October 2011 Critical Patch Update and the other the Critical Patch Update for Java SE"] The latter provides fixes for 20 new security vulnerabilities, Maurice reports, and the former provides fixes for 57 new security vulnerabilities. He points out that, because of Oracle's diligence in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, the number of required fixes declines with each passing release.
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Charlie Hunt, JVM Performance Lead Engineer at Oracle and the lead author of the newly published Java Performance book, joins host Roger Brinkley on Episode 49 of Java Spotlight to discuss both Java performance and the book as well. Hunt's responsibilities at Oracle include improving the performance of the Java HotSpot VM and Java SE class libraries. He has also been involved in improving the performance of both GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and Oracle WebLogic Server. In his customary seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel during Episode 49 is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.
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