Java's origins trace back to the early 1990s, when a team at Sun Microsystems led by James Gosling set out to develop a language for interactive ...

When Java burst on the scene, applets were the stars of the show. It was already clear that the HTML browser was a wonderfully universal application platform, although not a very rich one.

The update is available in the Mac App Store. Of note, the updates “uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers.” New Macs do not come with Java installed and newer ...

is that Apple by default disabled Java applet support in Web browsers in its most recent Java security update. Starting with OS X 10.7 Lion, Java isn’t installed by default anyway. And even if ...

an online museum of educational applets, but Java has been mostly replaced by Flash and JavaScript for creating interactive programs on the web. Unfortunately, it's managed to stick around ...

The web server that actually holds the file sees it as a GIF file, and serves it accordingly, but when the "image" actually reaches the client, it's opened as a Java applet and run. Simply viewing ...

This security slip-up could allow a malicious Web site operator to take any action on your PC that you could. The security breach at hand results from a flaw in the functionality of the Microsoft ...

“Applets have swung back to being a popular way of delivering functionality through the Web,” Bryant said. The Java update has been viewed as a companion to Sun’s new JavaFX technology for ...

You can add professional menus to your Web site with Apycom Java Menu Applets, which have recently been updated to version 2.1, according to Steven Verbitsky of ...

Java is also used to create miniature, dynamic programs that run alongside or are embedded within Web pages. These programs are called applets and can be used to display maps, weather, games or ...