JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal

OpenJDK. (2021). JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal.

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2021

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• Lehman's law of continuing change
  • . Software maintenance and budgeting — reclassifies baseline maintenance from a discretionary, defect-driven cost into a non-negotiable line item, since a frozen system's relational fitness decays monotonically with environmental drift. Legacy-system management — diagnoses the decline of an untouched deployed system as environmental drift rather than bit-rot or latent bugs; the IRS Individual Master File is patched continuously not because its assembly-language code rots but because tax law, payment rails, and integration partners keep moving. Software-lifecycle and risk planning — exposes "ship no changes, incur no risk" as the provably-excluded branch, so a stable legacy system's risk is assessed by time-since-last-adaptation scaled by environmental volatility, not by code stability. Software preservation and obsolescence analysis — frames why unchanged artifacts lose usability as their runtime environment moves, the 1996 Java applet that runs identical bytecode but loads in no modern browser being the clean relational-failure case

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