[jtheory]

Well... it's certainly killing applets, but applications that run on the JRE are going to have a tough time as well.

I have a few applications that suddenly started popping up warnings that they may stop working in a future Java release, because of a missing property in the JAR manifest (no joke, the warning actually included technical language something like this).

Certainly, though, server-side Java is hale & hearty as ever.