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What is the need for an applet?

 
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Hi all,

Can anybody say what is the need for an applet when it has many drawbacks

like it can be transmitted from only server to client(one-way communication)

Also it has many restrictions !

Do we still need applets when servlets have come?

cheers!
 
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Servlets haven't replaced applets. Servlets run server-side, and applets run client-side.
 
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Applets provide:

Rich interfaces (running in a browser, easy to distribute)
Sandbox security (assurance for users)
Client side processing (reduces network load if a distributed application)

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Ramen
 
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But the truth is that applets aren't used all that much. When they were introduced, none of the other client-side active content options existed: JavaScript (introduced in the same version of Netscape that included Java for the first time), Flash, etc. Nowadays they are used for things like visualization demos, and occasionally in enterprise client-server apps; but the other alternatives are often better.
 
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