Chapter 14. Developing Swing Applications
The first exposure of many people to the Java programming language is in the form of applets, small and secure Java programs that run as part of a web page.
Java Web Start, a protocol for downloading and running Java programs, makes it possible to run applications from a web browser as if they were applets.
Today, you learn how to create these web-launched Java programs as you explore the following topics:
How to install and run Java applications in a web browser
How to publish your application’s files and run it
How Swing applications can run into performance slowdowns on time-consuming tasks
How to solve this problem by using
SwingWorker, a class that performs Swing work in its own thread
Java Web Start
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