Comment by vyskocilm
5 days ago
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?
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.
Remember IcedTea Web? Oh boy, I still have environments that use it.
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.
Yeah XMLHttpRequest and activex thing IE6 had. That was Javascript style that days.