Applet Basics
When the Java language was introduced in 1995, the language feature that got the most attention was applets, Java programs that run on a World Wide Web page. Before Java, web pages were a combination of text, images, and forms that used Common Gateway Interface programs running on the computer that hosted the pages. These gateway programs required special access to the web server presenting the page.
Applets require no special access and can be written by programmers of all skill levels. You'll write several during the span of these 24 hours. You can test them with any web browser that handles Java programs. Most of the Java programs you toured during the previous hour were all applets. Their structure differs from applications ...
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