I wish to God that Oracle would simply deprecate and discontinue browser-side Java applet support.
Whenever people see a headline like "Java Vulnerability Found!", it is virtually always referring to the client-side applet plugin. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that Java is insecure in general.
Whenever people see snark about Java installing the "Ask.com Toolbar", it is referring to the client-side JRE installer (i.e. applet plugin). That's virtually irrelevant to developers, because we install the full SDK which contains no crapware and never has. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that being a Java developer means dodging malware with every upgrade.
Java applets are basically the non-Microsoft business world's answer to ActiveX. A dead 1990's technology that no one has cared about in 15 years or more, which only still exists to support backwards-compatibility for some horrible crusty shops still running on XP or even NT/2000. No contemporary Java developer gives a fuck about applets, and by "contemporary" I mean "any greenfield development done since 9/11". However, we're all sick to death of having to defend our ecosystem against constant FUD, due to this horrible piece of obsolete legacy cruft.
Just kill it. Seriously.
Whenever people see a headline like "Java Vulnerability Found!", it is virtually always referring to the client-side applet plugin. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that Java is insecure in general.
Whenever people see snark about Java installing the "Ask.com Toolbar", it is referring to the client-side JRE installer (i.e. applet plugin). That's virtually irrelevant to developers, because we install the full SDK which contains no crapware and never has. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that being a Java developer means dodging malware with every upgrade.
Java applets are basically the non-Microsoft business world's answer to ActiveX. A dead 1990's technology that no one has cared about in 15 years or more, which only still exists to support backwards-compatibility for some horrible crusty shops still running on XP or even NT/2000. No contemporary Java developer gives a fuck about applets, and by "contemporary" I mean "any greenfield development done since 9/11". However, we're all sick to death of having to defend our ecosystem against constant FUD, due to this horrible piece of obsolete legacy cruft.
Just kill it. Seriously.