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

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/27/21 11:44 AM, Eric Bresie wrote:
> Are there plans to fork off to an open project with something similar to what was done with Java Webstart?
> 
> https://openwebstart.com/

It's be difficult to keep the API going with newer JDK releases.
Maybe a renaming exercise along the lines of Jakarta EE. Do you
think that applets have a long-term future, beyond the expected
lifetime of updating older JDK releases?

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