On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:14:16 GMT, Justin Lu <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this PR which removes occurrences of 'applet' within the > corelibs specification. Applet has been deprecated since JDK9, and may be a > confusing term for new Java developers, so it should be removed from the > documentation. > > Primarily, usages where 'applet' is used interchangeably with 'application' > are removed. > This change does not include removal of usages in a historical sense. For > example, something such as > > > * @apiNote > * Thread groups provided a way in early Java releases to group threads and > provide > * a form of <i>job control</i> for threads. Thread groups supported the > isolation > * of applets and defined methods intended for diagnostic purposes. It should > be > * rare for new applications to create ThreadGroups and interact with this > API. > > > in _src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ThreadGroup.java_. > Please see the JBS issue comments for further reasoning on why other > occurrences were not removed. src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/charset/spi/CharsetProvider.java line 39: > 37: * implementation classes. Charset providers may be installed in an > instance > 38: * of the Java platform as extensions. Providers may also be made > available by > 39: * adding them to the application class path or by some other They can also be deployed on the application module path, maybe need a separate JBS issue to clarify that part of the spec, and add a test. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21046#discussion_r1764498846
