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Java Applets

A Java applet is a program written in Java that can be embedded in Web pages. Like ActiveX controls, Java applets are relatively lightweight programs designed to be transmitted across the Internet. Java and ActiveX are two competing technology visions for implementing Web applications. Java, spearheaded by Sun, competes directly with ActiveX, championed by Microsoft. Unlike ActiveX controls, which are entirely a Windows-based technology, Java applets can run on numerous operating systems and browsers. Back in the mid-1990s, Sun Microsystems created Java and popularized it, attracting numerous developers into its highly object-oriented, network-centric, and operating-system-agnostic computing model. Java's multiplatform support is ...