Jagex Games Studio released the first RuneScape 3 beta yesterday

RuneScape, a popular massive online swords-and-sorcery game, is at last dumping Java and becoming a Web app. Jagex Games Studio released the first RuneScape 3 beta yesterday, embracing HTML5 and rs gold related Web standards that offer programmers a more modern option for writing software that runs on a variety of operating systems.
About time, I say. Java had some potential years ago, and it still has its place elsewhere in the computing world. But as a way to extend a browser's abilities, it's history. If the plague of Java security vulnerabilities weren't enough to convince you otherwise, the trend away from browser plug-ins should be.

With more than 200 million RuneScape accounts and thousands online at the same time, RuneScape is a big reason for a lot of people not to uninstall Java.

Nobody in my household plays RuneScape, but there are other reasons I can't eradicate Java from my life.
One is my son's favorite electronic pastime, Minecraft, which runs on Java. Another is MIT's Scratch, the programming environment he also toys with.

There are some grounds for hope here, too. Versions of Minecraft are available for iOS and Android, indicating that its developers can see beyond Java. And Scratch 2.0, currently in beta testing, uses Adobe Systems' Flash Player instead of Java. Flash is also on its way out, but it's a few years behind Java and far more widely used, meaning that browsers will actively support it for longer.

The most offensive Java relic in my life is an expense-reporting system that doesn't even work except with a version of Java that dates back to before Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. That means it's vulnerable to a multitude of documented attacks. It's a good thing smart browser makers no longer let Java applets run until the user grants permission.

Migrating off Java is tricky.
MIT considered other options but went with Flash because it has "the best combination of features, performance, and browser penetration right now," according to the project's FAQ. "Flash allows us to make Scratch available to as many people as possible without requiring them to install runescape money anything."