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. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 5f3e7aa8 Author: Justin Lu <j...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/5f3e7aa83348edafb83480ce67d0c58c46e11b24 Stats: 19 lines in 7 files changed: 0 ins; 1 del; 18 mod 8339735: Remove references to Applet in core-libs/security APIs Reviewed-by: coffeys, naoto, iris, rriggs, lancea, mullan ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21046
