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Oracle To Drop Java Browser Plugin In JDK 9 (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the soon-still-won't-be-too-soon dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After Mozilla said in October that it would stop supporting Firefox plugins on the older NPAPI technology, Oracle had no choice now but to announce the deprecation of the Java browser plugin starting with the release of the JDK version 9, which is set for release in March 2017, and developers are urged to start using the Java Web Start pluginless technology instead. Security issues also had a big part in Java's demise.

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  1. GOOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck Java. I hated it was a requirement for my networking classes and I hate what it has done to the industry in terms of advertising/abuse.