But this also means to build up technical debt and postpones the situation only for a small amount of time. Buy Oracle support and stay with Java 8 for the next few yearsДЄs commercialВ support isВ guaranteed byВ OracleВ until 2025 (see the Java Release Train), one can stick with Java 8 until then.To address this situation, two options have been available so far: Staying with Java 8 also builds up technical debt and only postpones the urge to face the situation. Since public support of Java 8 has ended in Q2/2019, updates and security fixes for Java Web Start are not available without a paid support contract with Oracle. Organizations have to look for alternative deployment solutions which might require substantial migration efforts. From Java 11 on, JWS does not exist any longer and, therefore, JWS based applications cannot be used with Java versions newer than Java 8. This leads to the problem that clients that have the latest version of Java installed can no longer use JWS-based applications. In addition, they increasingly require desktop applications to be distributed through their own privateВ application stores. OracleВ argues thatВ vendors of the most popular desktop operating systems push for applications to be delivered in bundles together with integrated, sandboxed runtimes. вЂњOracle will not include Java Web Start in Java SE 11 (18.9 LTS) and later.вЂќ With the release ofВ Java 11, which happened on September 2018,В OracleВ removedВ JWSВ from theirВ JDKВ distributions.В OnВ the Java Client Roadmap UpdateВ it has been announced that AlthoughВ JWSВ was advertised as an alternative to the deprecated applet technology, the days ofВ JWSВ applications are now counted. The whole story began whenВ JavaВ applets and almost all NPAPIВ plugins became obsolete and were replaced by Web-based technologies. вЂњJava Applet and WebStart functionality, including the Applet API, the Java plug-in, the Java Applet Viewer, JNLP and Java Web Start including the javaws tool, are all deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed in a future release.вЂќ If your application is distributed via Java Web StartВ ( JWS) and you are not yet concerned by the decisionВ OracleВ made regardingВ Java Web Start, you might not be paying attention:В JWSВ has been deprecated in Java 9:

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