Recommendations for MATLAB Apps Using Java and ActiveX

Recommendations for MATLAB Apps Using Java and ActiveX

Background

The undocumented JavaFrame property and javacomponent function, as well as the actxcontrol function, are capabilities that rely on third-party technologies (Java Swing and Microsoft COM, respectively), which over the years, have become legacy UI frameworks. MathWorks has been transitioning its UI building infrastructure to web technologies in response to customer requests for new web-based sharing workflows (MATLAB Web Apps and MATLAB Drive™). With this transition, maintaining support for javacomponent, JavaFrame, and actxcontrol limits our ability to further evolve the MATLAB^® UI building platform to support the needs of our customers. As a result, these capabilities will be removed in a future release.

Recommendations

Over the past several releases, documented MATLAB functions and features have been added to replace the reliance on these undocumented and legacy features. The following table lists some of the most common features you can now access in MATLAB using documented functions. Users are encouraged to update their code to use these documented alternatives.

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Documented MATLAB Recommendations