alt Hacker NewsJEP 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?
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hju22_-3 • yesterday at 7:46 PM
Remember IcedTea Web? Oh boy, I still have environments that use it.
cyberax • yesterday at 7:50 PM
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.
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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.