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I really do not understand what the Jave EE version history page has to do with the security of the Java runtime.

As for the other link, I think you have mixed things up a little. Those vulnerabilities are ways to bypass the Java sandbox, when Java is running in the browser as an applet. This is really not comparable to Ruby, as it cannot run in the browser and does not even have a sandbox functionality as far as I know.

Show me a way to remotely execute code on a machine just because it is running Java, and you will have my fullest attention :-)