Migrating Browser-Based Java Applets to IcedTea-Web using JNLP

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:55:53 +0000

“Does it run on JDK 11?” – That’s an always interesting question!

As a practical, more challenging example around this question, I used a 20 year old JAR, once created for a Java Applet to be run in the Java 1.1 Browser Plugin. Yes, that’s 1.1 not 11!

To cut to the chase for those who fear this may be too long to read: yes it runs! 🙂

And to provide more detail—it now runs outside of any Web Browser and without modifying its decades-old JAR. The Applet was once created and offered to browse through all raw color images uploaded by the Mars Pathfinder Lander which settled down on the planet on July 4th, 1997.

Holger Isenberg on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

Migrating Browser-Based Java Applets to IcedTea-Web using JNLP