Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
Applets - Basic Principles
- Application
- Stand-alone Java program: starts at
main and runs to
completion
- Applet
- Sub-program that runs underneath some other control program
- Applet Viewer
- Java-capable Web Browser
- Applet is event driven, responding to actions which occur in display
window
- Keyboard actions
- Mouse movement or buttons
Java - An Introductory Language Tutorial
(E.A.Johnson)