#937 Remove use of Applet API

[scottmarlow]

Signed-off-by: Scott Marlow smarlow@redhat.com

Fixes Issue
#937 in support of jakartaee/platform#298

Describe the change
Applet is deprecated as of Java SE 17 and was removed from the EE 10 Platform SPEC. This change is removing the tests that use the Applet APIs.

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[markt-asf]

Given the removal of support for NPAPI by browsers, we probably need to look at deprecating and removing <jsp:plugin> and associated structures. I could get the work done for that fairly quickly (in the next 24-28 hours) but is it practical to get that done for Jakarta EE 10?

Given the specs will still support <jsp:plugin> where use of applet is valid, this change seems like the simplest way forward for the TCK.

[starksm64]

I would say that is the correct thing to do. Remove it from the spec and update the spec documents in the PR.
jakartaee/specifications#435

[markt-asf]

Removal without prior deprecation would be unusual. I'd want to ensure there was wide support for that. It would also require moving to 4.0.0 which triggers a bunch of other processes. I'm not sure there is time to do this at this point.

Deprecation and a change to make the <jsp:plugin> a NO-OP could be done in the next 24 hours or so - including updating the TCK tests to ensure that they were NO-OPs (rather than removing the tests).

[starksm64]

Applet support was deprecated previously, and has been removed from the platform specs. Making things a NO-OP would be a fine compromise.

[scottmarlow]

Deprecation and a change to make the <jsp:plugin> a NO-OP could be done in the next 24 hours or so - including updating the TCK tests to ensure that they were NO-OPs (rather than removing the tests).

So the TCK tests would be updated to fail if the jsp:plugin is not ignored, that sounds good.

[markt-asf]

PR for changes to Jakarta Pages: jakartaee/pages#228
Feedback welcome (on that PR please).

[markt-asf]

See #940 for my proposed alternative approach

[scottmarlow]

This pr is replaced by #940