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I just inherited project that consists of a Java applet and some server communications, and with it found out that this technology is no longer supported by oracle. My first thought was to wrap it in a JNLP and javawebstart but since oracle also marked this as deprecated in jdk9 i cannot use it as i need a long term support solution. I want to try avoiding a complete re-write of the applet. Does anybody have any ideas on this? Are there other alternatives on the market? Thank you in advance.

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    Possible duplicate of Java Web Start support in Java 9 and beyond Commented Feb 5, 2018 at 10:44
  • "Are there other alternatives on the market?" Yes. JS & HTML. Together they can provide the functionality of 90% of applets ever written. Throw in the HTML 5 canvas element & that becomes 95% (or beyond). What does this applet do? Commented Feb 6, 2018 at 5:46
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    Thank you, but by alternatives i'm reffering to something to launch the applet, something along the lines of JNLP, but supported by modern browsers. As i said i would avoid re-writing the app. Commented Feb 6, 2018 at 16:49

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You might want to check out https://github.com/update4j/update4j which natively supports Java 9.

Also allows distibuting files base on operating system. And you can sign files to prevent Man In The Middle attacks. And much more.

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