Java’s rapid rise to fame 20 years ago began with a tumbling duke applet running in the HotJava browser, long before Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome were released.

Oracle Corp. today released an update for its Java SE software that fixes at least 42 security flaws in the widely-installed program and associated browser plugin.

To take advantage of the features available in Java applets and ActiveX controls, SAS/GRAPH produces graphs that suit these device types. The resulting Java or ActiveX graphs may differ visually from ...