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Note that the the Java plugin and webstart was removed a long time ago.

I personally regret that the API was removed as it's a few classes and they are still used. Just search JApplet on Github. It's also possible to run applets in the modern browsers with WASM or in Java IDE's as plugin.

Remember IcedTea Web? Oh boy, I still have environments that use it.

I made several Webstart corporate apps back in the day! The infrastructure was pretty neat, when it worked. And it was a whole lot better than JS back then, still in the IE6 times.

Yeah XMLHttpRequest and activex thing IE6 had. That was Javascript style that days.