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I've been maintaining a "port" of an older enterprise KVM tool that was written for something along the lines of Java 6-8 and required a very minimal rewrite pa

I've been maintaining a "port" of an older enterprise KVM tool that was written for something along the lines of Java 6-8 and required a very minimal rewrite patch to keep working. The most annoying parts of older Java binaries are ones that used the "sun.*" packages that were disabled at some point. https://github.com/mmastrac/raritan-multi-platform-client-modern-java/blob/main/rewrite.sh https://github.com/mmastrac/raritan-multi-platform-client-mo... Say what you will about Java, but the app actually functions -- including all the wild features like remote virtual media, audio tunnelling, etc. It doesn't look very pretty, however.

fuzztester 2y ago
I've not used Java for many years now, but earlier when I did, the "sun.*" packages were clearly mentioned as subject to change and not to be relied on, IIRC.
- knallfrosch 2y ago
  And with so many people falling into the same trap, there are usually drop-in replacement packages.
  - cess11 2y ago
    Same goes for javax -> jakarta since the handover of enterprise Java from Oracle to Eclipse. 'find . -name "*.java" -exec sed -i "s/search/replace/g" \;' on a per package basis will likely sort things out.