“Now, you just install a 4.5MB initial piece of the Java kernel and that’s enough to run common applications and applets,” Bryant said. Although Java initially was hailed in the mid-1990s as ...

Some XP systems shipped without a JVM at all. With these systems, when you hit a page with a Java applet embedded, Internet Explorer (IE) offers to download and install the JVM from the Internet. If ...

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming ...

This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers. To use applets on a web page, click on the region labeled "Missing plug-in" to go download the latest version ...

The HotJava browser reads standard HTML just like any other Web browser. It also has the ability to download Java applets. To accomplish this, a small addition was made to HTML. An additional tag ...

When you visit a web site that has a Java applet, the MS JVM will compile and ... version of the MS JVM we advise that you remove it and install the safer SUN JVM as an alternative.

I performed a clean install of XP SP2 and find that I can not display java applets in IE. I did not have this problem with XP SP1 or with W2K SP4. A check under IE options, security settings shows ...

The AppletContext class in the java.applet package contains the two member functions getApplet and getApplets. By using those functions, an applet can find other applets and invoke methods on them.

Although, due to the lack of NPAPI support, Java applets stopped working in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers, you can still install and run Java on Windows 11 PCs.