<AWT Dev> New candidate JEP: 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Fri Mar 5 22:37:07 UTC 2021


On 3/5/21 2:19 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398
>
>    Summary: Deprecate the Applet API for removal.  It is essentially
>    irrelevant since all web-browser vendors have either removed support
>    for Java browser plug-ins or announced plans to do so.
>
> - Mark


I know it's not the standard browser usage, but I count 34 jtreg tests 
in open/test/jdk that contain `extends Applet`.

Do you have a sense of what you want to do with jtreg GUI tests that 
incidentally use Applet?

-- Jon



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