Hour 17. Creating Interactive Web Programs
Now that Java has made the transition from a child prodigy to an established language, it is being used for all kinds of large-scale business software and other applications. How ever, for some people, the core appeal of the language remains a type of program that Java made possible: the applet.
Applets are programs designed to run as part of a World Wide Web page. When a Java applet is encountered on a page, it is downloaded to the user's computer and begins running.
During this hour you'll be introduced to applet programming and Java Web Start, a way to install and run Java software from within a web browser.
Programming applets with Java is much different from creating applications with Java. Because ...
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