Why applets are important. I can understand why Sun initially believed that client-side Java was important. It tried to introduce a new paradigm for the development and delivery of applications ...

An applet is a Java app that can do whatever Java can do (but there are strong security limitations - no access to local filesystem, no local application launching) ...

However, Java or ActiveX graphs can be modified interactively during a browser session. For example, you can change the graph type from a bar chart to a pie chart, and then change the colors of the ...

I have a java swing GUI which uses jdbc to connect to my MySQL server and do some score updates etc for a game I made. <BR><BR>I converted the swing GUI into an applet and am running into security ...