Hour 17. Creating Interactive Web Programs

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Stopping and starting an applet

• Putting an applet on a web page

• Customizing an applet with parameters on a web page

• Displaying web pages in an application

Java has become successful as a general-purpose language that runs on many distinct platforms, including cell phones, web servers, and Internet appliances. When the language was introduced in the mid-1990s, it was the first programming language that could run inside a web browser.

Applets are Java programs designed to run as part of a web page. When a Java applet is encountered on a page, it is downloaded to the user’s computer and begins running.

Programming applets is different than creating applications with ...

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