Chapter 18. Applets

Terms in This Chapter

  • Applet

  • Batch file

  • Browser

  • Browser simulator

  • Code base

  • Context

  • HTTP/FTP protocol

  • JAR/zip file

  • Lifecycle management

  • Sandbox

  • Stub

  • Tag

Once upon a time, there was a relatively new company named Netscape that became king of the Internet. It was Netscape's acceptance of Java applets that put Java on the map.

If you follow Java, you know that, ironically, it's had a lot more impact on the server side (J2EE, servlets, JMS, RMI, JAVA IDL, EJB, etc.) than on the client side (applets, Swing). However, change is under way. With later Java releases, Sun Microsystems has introduced a plug-in for browsers that addresses many of the shortcomings of applets by allowing them to be cached.

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