Tried running a Java applet recently? ;P
If you ever peek at the software some industries are running, you may find yourself extremely surprised. A lot of it is incredibly specific, and truly terrible.
It is ironic that what was originally the most hyped feature of Java has now been removed. But nobody is going to miss it.
They didn't mention the applet part in the job description. That was my shortest tenure ever, including Summer jobs and internships...
> The answer to this question is almost certainly "no".
For me, it's a yes. My employer uses some ancient monitoring application called SiteScope. They recently "upgraded" from an ancient version to a newer one (I think the latest), and nearly the whole frontend appears to be implemented as a Java Applet. Since no browser on the Mac supports Applets anymore, their workaround was to download some Java App that ran the UI.
The older version we had used HTML.
I wonder how effective ancient monitoring software is.
The workaround is actually part of the software itself (there are instructions right below the login box).
My understanding is they're only upgrading because the old version didn't support modern versions of TLS, and there's a big push to get off of those. Finding new monitoring software would be probably be more work. At a minimum, the new version probably supports all the features we're using, and at best all our configuration can be automatically migrated. I don't know the details: I'm not part of the project, I just have an some apps with some monitors setup for them.
> I wonder how effective ancient monitoring software is.
It gets the job done.