RFR: 8359053: Implement JEP 504 - Remove the Applet API [v10]

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:58:32 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the implementation of JEP 504 - Remove the Applet API.
>> API changes are
>> - Remove the entire java.applet package
>> - Remove the javax/swing/JApplet class
>> - Remove applet related APIs in java.beans
>> - Update javadoc referring to applets, including one gif image - now changed to an svg image
>> - 
>> Other changes are
>> - Remove references to the removed classes
>> - Remove obsolete tests
>> - Update obsolete code comments
>> 
>> sun.awt.AppContext is even more obsolete now than it was before, but eliminating uses of that will be is not required,
>> and will be follow-on internal clean up, at a later date, under unrelated bug ids, and likely not completed in the same
>> release as this JEP is integrated.
>> 
>> I have extensively tested this - running all the automated tests used by CI tiers 1 to 8.
>
> Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8359053

Marked as reviewed by aivanov (Reviewer).

src/java.desktop/share/classes/java/awt/doc-files/Modality.html line 352:

> 350:       <code>Dialog(owner, true)</code>, etc. Prior to JDK 6
> 351:       the default type was toolkit-modal,
> 352:       and now with single application per-VM there is no

Why is it “per-VM” instead of “per VM”?

“…Single application per VM…”, in this sentence “per” is a preposition and “VM” is a noun, don't you agree? There should be a space, not a hyphen.

If it were “per-VM application”, then it would be spelt with a hyphen.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25698#pullrequestreview-2951339948
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25698#discussion_r2162407407