JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal

[Volker Simonis]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:15 PM <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 2021/3/16 11:37:44 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> > The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 17:
> >
> >   398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
> >        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.
> >
> > Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> > is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> > are raised by 23:59 UTC on Tuesday, 23 March, or if they’re raised and
> > then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> > I’ll target this JEP to JDK 17.
>
> Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 17.
>

This might require an update of "JSR 56: Java Network Launching
Protocol and API" [1] but this is probably not something that needs to
be handled in the OpenJDK project.

[1] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=56


> - Mark