How to get Apple Java Extensions (com.apple.eawt) work on JDK 7 and higher?

Question

TL;DR: Apple has dropped native feature support in Java. Especially touchpad gestures are not working any longer. I wrote a library that does the job using

Answer 1

I had the same problem with "pinch to zoom" - it works in java 6 but not 7 or 8. I came across this bug in the jdk which seems to be responsible. It says it is fixed in Java 9.