Oracle is planning to kill an attacker's favorite: The Java browser plug-in

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that.
"Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9," the Java Platform Group said in a blog post Wednesday. "This technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release."
The Java Development Kit (JDK) 9, the reference implementation for the next version of Java SE, is expected to reach genera