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I spent an hour or two figuring out how to even download Java, whether I need to give Oracle my home address, use a third party JDK etc. Then it turned out the standard built in GUI library I needed was no longer standard or built in. (I also used it ten years ago and it was a much better experience then.)

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trinix912 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

JavaFX? I’ve been there too, had to install it with maven and waste a few hours getting the maven xml just right for it to bundle the entire thing into a runnable jar (one that doesn’t require shipping extra files). Not the most convenient, but I get that they wanted to split it off the JDK release cycle.

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sorokod 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To save you time in the future:

https://adoptium.net/en-GB/

Haven't used javaFX for a while but this is worth a shot

https://openjfx.io

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Suppafly 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I spent an hour or two figuring out how to even download Java, whether I need to give Oracle my home address, use a third party JDK etc.

My son found a disk with some of my old java project from college 20 years ago and that's about what it took to run them, first figuring out how to even download java and then making some minor changes to get them running. I think we gave up trying to get the actual applet based ones to run.

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fian 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I know this is a late response, but for anyone curious you would need to use an official Oracle or Sun JDK/JRE from Java 8 or older. OpenJDK doesn't include support for applets.

You also need a browser that has NPAPI. IE 11 was the most modern browser I am aware of that still supported applets.

The old GUI framework mentioned in the GP might have been Swing. It is still included in most JDKs and allows for cross platform desktop GUI application development with no other dependencies outside the JDK. Finding documentation on how to do GUIs in Swing is getting increasingly difficult though.

	▲	Suppafly 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC Oracle makes it really hard to find the download. Admittedly we didn't spend more than an hour or two messing around with all of it and getting the applets to run wasn't a high priority or anything.

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banku_brougham 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

applet. thats a name i havent heard in a very long time.

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ivan_gammel 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, I would spend probably similar time to get started on Pascal, which I used last time in the previous century. I would not blame Pascal for it though.