Hello, Since the mailing-list is one of the places to provide feedback, I wanted provide feedback about JEP 504 <https://openjdk.org/jeps/504>: Remove the Applet API
Even if the applet plug-in for browsers is not used anymore, there are other ways applets are used. I have developed plug-ins for IntelliJ IDEA (& similar JetBrains IDE), Eclipse and NetBeans to be able to run applets embedded in the IDE. The plug-ins have reached more than 50,000 downloads since 2021. All my software (more than 20 Swing applications) are also applets. They are also available as standalone but as applet, people can run them embedded in their IDE or in the file manager that I wrote that also supports running applets. You also have products like CheerpJ and TeaVM that make (or could make) possible to run applets embedded in a browser that supports WASM/WebAssembly. See the recent top comment in https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/1kxchwf/cheerpj_41_java_in_the_browser_now_supporting/ Also searching for "path:*.java JApplet" results in 14,500 results in GitHub. I can understand that you want to get rid of old code that you think is never used (like AppletInitializer) but I think it's not the case for the classes Applet, AppletContext, AppletStub and JApplet. Best regards, Anthony Goubard
