Hello,
I have been trying to find out the answer for this question for some time now but to no avail. So I'm posting it here. Our browsers require us to download
java plug ins to display certain contents.
So I allowed it to download the latest JRE. Well and good, but why do browsers need JRE (JVM,since JVM can't be without JRE) in the first place? I do understand that there are websites which uses Java
applets for displaying content and so require JRE. But most of the applet type of contents have been replaced by flash in the internet. So other than applets is there anything that require JRE to be installed for us to view the website? Servers use Java but when the response is sent its going to be HTML, so why do we need java in our browser other than running applets?
I have given a link
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp , it is used to verify our version of JRE. When I first visited this site, my browser required me to run the java plug in. So I accepted it and the content was displayed. But when I view the source of this page there are no references to 'applets' in the HTML page, so I believe there must be something other than applets that uses java, what are those 'somethings'?
Hope I have laid out the question clearly !