Applets promised the best of both worlds: the zero-install, “write-once, run anywhere” qualities of pure HTML and the richness of the native graphical user interface (GUI). RESOURCES Applet ...

“When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI.

Initially, Java classes for applets were downloaded separately, which took a long time. That was especially true in HTTP 1.0, which opened and closed a socket connection for every file downloaded.

Sun hasn't set yet on Java applets. By Rick Moore; December 31, 2002; There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as ...

Java quickly gained traction with web applets and, soon after, enterprise applications. ... JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and the Swing GUI library broadened its use.

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.