The much-maligned Java browser plugin, source of so many security flaws over the years, is to be killed off by Oracle. It will be removed some time after the release of Java 9. It will not be mourned.
Oracle, which acquired Java as part of its 2010 purchase of Sun Microsystems, has announced that the plugin will be deprecated in the next release of Java, version 9, which is currently available as an early access beta. A future release will remove it entirely.
Of course, Oracle’s move is arguably a day late and a dollar short. …
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