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

Rony G. Flatscher Rony.Flatscher at wu.ac.at
Thu Mar 25 17:16:49 UTC 2021


If the Applet API gets removed from the OpenJDK, then there will be no reason and possibility in the
future to (re-)add a Java plugin to browsers anymore.

Also, it might be interesting to consider adding Applet API support to the JavaFX WebView (in
essence a web browser) where the Applet API could still be applied. Something maybe like
<https://github.com/brunoborges/webfx>.

---rony


On 16.03.2021 19:37, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> 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.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
> [2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html



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