RFR: 8339735: Remove references to Applet in core-libs/security APIs [v2]

[Sean Mullan]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:59:40 GMT, Justin Lu <jlu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this PR which removes occurrences of 'applet' within the corelibs specification. Applet has been deprecated since JDK9, and may be a confusing term for new Java developers, so it should be removed from the documentation.
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>> Primarily, usages where 'applet' is used interchangeably with 'application' are removed.
>> This change does not include removal of usages in a historical sense. For example, something such as 
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>> 
>>  * @apiNote
>>  * Thread groups provided a way in early Java releases to group threads and provide
>>  * a form of <i>job control</i> for threads. Thread groups supported the isolation
>>  * of applets and defined methods intended for diagnostic purposes. It should be
>>  * rare for new applications to create ThreadGroups and interact with this API.
>> 
>> 
>> in _src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ThreadGroup.java_. 
>> Please see the JBS issue comments for further reasoning on why other occurrences were not removed.
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> Justin Lu has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   reflect review comments

Marked as reviewed by mullan (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21046#pullrequestreview-2315289461