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

[Philip Race]

I should clarify my response that there's no time frame being set here 
for the actual removal
so there should be ample time to do that re-writing.

phil.

On 3/5/21 2:59 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>
> I actually counted almost 100 such open tests. You need to remember 
> JApplet too.
> And these open jtreg tests do not account for all of it by any means.
>
> There are a couple of options - although I  think re-writing is the 
> only truly viable one.
> But definitely re-working all of those is one thing that has to happen 
> before this JEP can be integrated.
> And of course submitted != targeted ..
>
> -phil
>
> On 3/5/21 2:37 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>
>> 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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