Eclipse Foundation reports more than 12 million downloads of its Temurin Java SE binaries per month over the past three months.

Since Microsoft won't include it as part of Windows XP, Sun is offering the new Java Virtual Machine for Microsoft's Windows XP as a free download.

Patch your computer by going to Sun's Java page. Click on the button in the top-left green box, which leads to a free Java download. The software will start downloading automatically onto Windows PCs.

It’s not clear whether Java 7 is more for regular users or for developers at this point, because the Free Java Download link at java.com still takes users to Version 6 Update 29.

To see which version of Java you have installed, visit this link and click the “Do I Have Java?” link under the big red “Free Java Download” button.

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JBoss this week began shipping a J2EE 1.4-certified open source Java application server, with anyone able to get it for free. Whether they want to pay support costs is up to them. Other free Java ...

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