There was plenty of warning. Oracle stopped using MD5 with RSA algorithm as the default JAR signing option with Java SE6, which was released in 2006.

RSA, Bsafe SWS-J, may spell relief for Java coders working on Web services applications. The new product provides security mechanisms based on the Oasis WS-Security standard that developers can simply ...

RSA Security Inc. unexpectedly released the widely used RSA public-key encryption algorithm into the public domain ahead of this week's expiration of the patent on the algorithm -- a move that's ...