Java applets may yet fulfill their original promise. Demand for a richer Web GUI is growing, and no other technology on the horizon offers Java’s cross-platform, cross-browser portability.

“Applets are back!” was the beginning line of Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology, published in June 2008 in conjunction with the release of Java SE 6 Update 10.

Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle in 2010, introduced Java applets in 1995 and the technology was briefly popular with scientists and educators, who used them to create things such as ...

In 2012, TheServerSide, the industry's biggest booster of Java-based application development and delivery, questioned the sanity of any organization that depended upon the Java browser plug-in for ...

Almost 1/4 of the respondents chose Java applets. The only higher response was for Ajax/DHTML (~30%). Flex got 17% of the votes and 10% of the responses were from people who don’t like RIA.

Developing Java applets for electrical machine using Beans technology Abstract: This paper presents Web-based contents for studying electrical machine. The component-based software development ...