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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by smoyer on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @06:36PM (#6772073)
I hear a lot of people claim that, but the reality is that many people run applications they don't realize are Java, and a lot of the infrastructure you rely on runs Java behind it.

As a JavaEE architect/developer, I whole-heartedly agree that you shouldn't run Applets in your browser anymore. In fact, unsigned applets will no longer run after January of 2014, which will break a lot of the banking infrastructure and a couple important client applications at my day job.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by laumars on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:14AM (#6773466)
This isn't even a java applet. It's java server side code. There is absolutely no reason for the former poster to boycott this aside from ignorant pig-headedness (and this is coming from someone who isn't exactly a fan of java himself)
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by potangina on Thursday November 21, 2013 @04:09AM (#6773757)
what is that?
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