JEP proposed to target JDK 26: 504: Remove the Applet API
Mark Reinhold
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Jul 14 19:37:38 UTC 2025
2025/7/7 10:43:50 -0400, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 26:
>
> 504: Remove the Applet API
> https://openjdk.org/jeps/504
>
> Summary: Remove the Applet API, which was deprecated for removal in
> JDK 17 (2021). It is obsolete because neither recent JDK releases nor
> current web browsers support applets.
>
> 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 17:00 UTC on Monday, 14 July, 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 26.
Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 26.
- Mark
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