Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9

Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by anta40 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:28PM (#10985684)

So, how do you interact with connected hardwares, then? For example, the company I'm working on have a interal-only, web application that interact with smart card readers. This one of the cases where Java applet comes in handy...

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by Sindisil on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:26PM (#10986273)

One option would be a Java WebStart application. You could reuse virtually all of your code.

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by jordanthoms on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:00PM (#10985849)

If you can have your users install a chrome extension, you can use the native messaging APIs: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging .

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by mhurron on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:12PM (#10985902)

One of the nice things about Java is it didn't force a specific web browser on the user.

If you presented something to me that required Chrome, I would leave. I don't use Chrome and I do not wish to.

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by djKianoosh on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:53PM (#10985811)

havent looked it up in a while but isnt there a servlet based way to read smartcards?

regardless, using applets to deal with smartcards seems oxymoronic ;)

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by superuser2 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:00PM (#10986141)

Because smart cards are hardware devices on the client, and nothing in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript gives you access to the client's USB ports.

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by gred on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:19PM (#10986237)

For now :-)

https://wicg.github.io/webusb/

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by djKianoosh on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:28AM (#10986481)

i guess i wasnt clear. i meant java servlets, not js. something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24351472/getattributejava...

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by superuser2 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:36AM (#10986507)

For some reason actual smartcard applications seem to use proprietary applets rather than the open standards around client certs.

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by anta40 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:04PM (#10986158)

The tool is used to manage some our smart card applets. And since it web-based, we don't need to give the copy of the tool to other people.

I don't write the tool, but maybe I can convince my supervisor to rewrite it into desktop app :)

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Re:Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 by zac1944 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:09AM (#10986421)

http/2

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