Java just made it official: Applets are DEAD in Java 26
Remember college days?
Writing your first <applet> tag, drawing circles, rectangles, and smiley faces using Graphics, making that bouncing ball animation (that never bounced smoothly), building a basic calculator UI, changing background colors on button click.
It felt like magic back then,
“Java can run inside a browser?!”
And then,
Waiting forever for it to load, clicking “Allow / Run” on scary security popups, debugging why nothing is showing on screen.
Good times.
But slowly,
Browsers dropped support, Security issues piled up, Better technologies took over.
And now in Java 26, Applets are gone for good.
Not just a removal, it’s pure nostalgia.
From: College applet programs to Desktop apps to Spring Boot & microservices
Java evolved. And so did we.
If you ever made a bouncing ball or drew a smiley using Applet,
you’re not old, you’re OG Java dev!
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