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21.8. Summary

HTML forms provide the simplest and most common front end to server-side programs. Applets, however, provide richer user interfaces, support continuously updating displays, and simplify the transmission of large complex data structures. The general rule of thumb is to use HTML forms whenever possible. But it is nice to be able to fall back to applets when HTML forms are too limiting.

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