This is a little confusing. It isn’t Java that needs to be disabled; it’s support for running Java applets in the browser that needs to be disabled. Or, as one of the linked articles explains, you can raise the applet security level to “high,” which will warn you before running an unsigned applet.
so....an applet...what is that? A bite sized apple?
I like apples
There certainly will be a lot of confusion, people still think Javascript is Java, although they have absolutely nothing to do with each other......and the vulnerability is only applicable to applets running in a browser, and not Java running on the server side.