Oracle Starts Planning The Death of Java Browser Plug-in
Oracle Corporation, the owners of Java have announced their plans to put the Java browser plug-in out of commission. In a recent #-Link-Snipped-#, Oracle has stated that they would be deprecating the Java browser plug-in in JDK 9 which will make a debut in the month of September. For the uninitiated, deprecation is a suggestion to discourage a feature that has been superseded or is no longer considered safe. The company is requesting developers to start switching from plug-in supported Java Applets to Java Web Start technology which does not require any plug-ins. You have to note here that the Java browser plug-in won’t be completely dead in September 2016 as Oracle plans to remove it altogether from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release whose release date remains unknown.
The Java browser plug-in which enabled applets to be run in web browsers was launched in 1995. In the past few years it has earned it fair share of bad press thanks to a ton of <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/oracles-latest-java-software-is-risky-business-you-have-been-warned.66542">Oracle's Latest Java Software Is Risky Business, You Have Been Warned</a> which could be exploited by hackers. No matter how hard developers tried to patch its security flaws, criminals managed to find the chink in its armour. Noticing its harmful nature major web browsers started clamping down on Java. It began with Mozilla, which started blocking NPAPI plug-ins (which includes Java) from December 2013 when it started rolling out Firefox 26. Soon Google followed suit by <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/google-chrome-to-brutally-take-down-plugins-built-on-npapi-architecture-from-jan-2014.70872">Google Chrome To Brutally Take Down Plugins Built On NPAPI Architecture From Jan 2014</a> NPAPI support from January 2014 and completely blocking it by September 2015 on the Chrome 45. Just a heads up, NPAPI or Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface is a plug-in architecture which was used to followed by major browsers and which included popular plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity and Java.
Oracle saw the writing on the wall when Microsoft launched the Edge browser which lacks support for any plug-ins at all. The only major browsers which do support Java plug-in are Internet Explorer and Safari. Oracle was smart enough to know that it needs to stop devoting its resources on developing something that no one wants to use anymore. So if you are a developer, you would want to take a look at #-Link-Snipped-# from Oracle about migrating from Java Applets to plug-in-free Java technologies.
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The Java browser plug-in which enabled applets to be run in web browsers was launched in 1995. In the past few years it has earned it fair share of bad press thanks to a ton of <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/oracles-latest-java-software-is-risky-business-you-have-been-warned.66542">Oracle's Latest Java Software Is Risky Business, You Have Been Warned</a> which could be exploited by hackers. No matter how hard developers tried to patch its security flaws, criminals managed to find the chink in its armour. Noticing its harmful nature major web browsers started clamping down on Java. It began with Mozilla, which started blocking NPAPI plug-ins (which includes Java) from December 2013 when it started rolling out Firefox 26. Soon Google followed suit by <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/google-chrome-to-brutally-take-down-plugins-built-on-npapi-architecture-from-jan-2014.70872">Google Chrome To Brutally Take Down Plugins Built On NPAPI Architecture From Jan 2014</a> NPAPI support from January 2014 and completely blocking it by September 2015 on the Chrome 45. Just a heads up, NPAPI or Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface is a plug-in architecture which was used to followed by major browsers and which included popular plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity and Java.
Oracle saw the writing on the wall when Microsoft launched the Edge browser which lacks support for any plug-ins at all. The only major browsers which do support Java plug-in are Internet Explorer and Safari. Oracle was smart enough to know that it needs to stop devoting its resources on developing something that no one wants to use anymore. So if you are a developer, you would want to take a look at #-Link-Snipped-# from Oracle about migrating from Java Applets to plug-in-free Java technologies.
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