[vyskocilm]

JEP 504: Remove the Applet API

Glad to see this being removed. Java plugins especially on Linux were awful and required by tons of corporate stuff. Anyone remeber IcedTea Web? A functional and opensource Java plugin and Java Webstart implementation?

[anthony88]

Note that the the Java plugin and webstart was removed a long time ago.

I personally regret that the API was removed as it's a few classes and they are still used. Just search JApplet on Github. It's also possible to run applets in the modern browsers with WASM or in Java IDE's as plugin.

[hju22_-3]

Remember IcedTea Web? Oh boy, I still have environments that use it.

[cyberax]

I made several Webstart corporate apps back in the day! The infrastructure was pretty neat, when it worked. And it was a whole lot better than JS back then, still in the IE6 times.

[vyskocilm]

Yeah XMLHttpRequest and activex thing IE6 had. That was Javascript style that days.