Now that JDK 8 is the official build bootstrap JDK for JDK 9, we can remove use of reflection in ORB code to access the applet context. bug report : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042906 webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8042906/webrev/ regards, Sean.