Java as an applet host has been effectively dead for years. I would be very surprised if Oracle were trying to resurrect that. Seems more likely that they'd be trying to replace the server JRE with a server-side JS interpreter.
Seems more likely that they'd be trying to replace the server JRE with a server-side JS interpreter
Unless you're suggesting they are being willfully misleading I'm not sure how you could interpret that from what they said:
...we think it’s something that we need to do for the community so we can make Java available more places from tablet devices like the iPad ...
I think Java applets are a lot less dead than people realize. There are heaps of enterprises that have deployed them for internal apps (essentially a slightly less evil version of ActiveX). I could easily imagine a lot of these places now have executives wandering around with iPads complaining that the payroll app doesn't work on their computer any more.
