Which Languages Do I Really Need to Know?

In the early days of Java, web development consisted of coding Java applets—user interface code written purely in Java that runs in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) of the web browser. This style of coding was essentially done in a single language—Java. The next major Java-oriented web development solution was servlets—code also written purely in Java that runs in the JVM of an application server and returns HTML to the web browser. This style is closer to the style used with the PL/SQL Web Toolkit, because you embed HTML inside the main language’s logic; therefore, even though the code is written in Java, a thorough understanding of HTML is required.

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