What does one do regarding applets now that Chrome doesn't support Java?

Question

Without thinking, I created an entire program in Java and began designing a website to use this applet. All it does is create image in a certain way but there is a bit more code (classifications and default values/images) that I just felt was easiest to do with Java. Now I have a Java app and HTML CSS and JavaScript that I can't seem to do much with.

I have thought of 2 ideas (below) but I don't know what the general alternative is to applets nowadays.

I have a spare PC I may use and just alter my applet to run the back-end of a server-based site instead, but I am hesitant to use my own IP and bandwidth for something like this. Also, this app doesn't even need access to the internet so this just seems like way overkill.

I could just release the .jar, but I plan on expanding the available options. I also told people that this website was coming. I'd like to be able to just update the website.

I don't really plan on writing my program in another language. This took me time to make. If there is no way to work Java into my site, I may just abandon the project altogether.

I am mainly concerned with Chrome for this problem.

Edit: I would like to use GitHub as my host, just in case this helps at all.

Answer 1

You can run anything you want on the server, including java programs. So you could run the image creation program in the server and present the resulting image using a standard img tag.