Java Web Start support in Java 9 and beyond

According to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/9-deprecated-features-3745636.html

Java Deployment Technologies are deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Java 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.

There is a related discussion on the OpenJDK discuss list here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-November/004586.html

Oracle will not include Java Web Start in Java SE 11 (18.9 LTS) and later.

Source: Java Client Roadmap Update 2018-03-05 (Oracle)

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