In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...

The internet as we see it today is still a fairly recent phenomenon. In 2016, even the most pedestrian, phone book-looking website aspires to be something more than merely an “entry” within the grand ...

Learning Java is a good idea – but Java Applets? This is an interesting book. It is intended to be a college textbook and it would do well in that role but it is also suitable for personal study. It ...

“You can’t stop the wind. But you can build windmills”. Dutch Proverb. The use of small programs such as Java applets and Active-X controls in Web pages is ...

It really is the end of an era. Oracle has announced that Applets are deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed from the JDK and JRE in the future. You may cheer and ...

Java would finally shed its Java Applet API under an OpenJDK proposal created December 4. The JDK Enhancement Proposal notes that the API not only has been deprecated for removal for some time but is ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

When used with ODS, procedures GCHART, GCONTOUR, GMAP, GPLOT, and G3D enable you to specify DEVICE=JAVA on a GOPTIONS statement to generate graphs that are Java applets. These same procedures enable ...

The java.applet.Applet class provides standard utility methods to interact with the host browser environment, fetch HTML parameters, retrieve media resources, and update browser status bars.