Comments on: What happened to the applet?

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:50:31 +0000

My kids play a really cool game called RuneScape that is essentially just an applet. It is extremely beautiful!

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Recent Faves Tagged With "java6" : MyNetFaves — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:50:25 +0000

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Recent Links Tagged With "applet" - JabberTags — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:35:02 +0000

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By: Leonel

Leonel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:02:52 +0000

And we can’t forget to remember: it’s 2008 and Sun still hasn’t provided a 64-bit version of the applet engine.

For a while, this was only an issue for customers with 64-bit OSes. Namely, GNU/Linux users.

However, on one hand, Linux is gaining momentum, and on another, Microsoft is pushing for Vista, which runs too on 64. How long can Sun still hope that users will install the 32bit version of their favorite browsers in their 64bit OSes, only to have applets ?

Or do they expect that some good soul will build 64bit applets from OpenJDK ? Sorry, I won’t wait for that long to have a quality (read: Sun’s official) applet engine in my OS.

I really, really, really, *really* do NOT understand what is so difficult about creating a 64bit version of the Java applet engine that three or four software engineers at Sun can’t solve in 6 months.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:27:09 +0000

Being able to utilize existing Java class libraries such as JGraph to create a really rich user experience on the web is a VERY compelling reason to adopt applets. Ever seen an ajax widget offer .1 of that functionality (and performance)? I haven’t.

By: Matt Harrah

Matt Harrah — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:33:08 +0000

For what it’s worth, JBoss’ web console uses an applet, and JBoss is awfully popular…

I think one big reason that applets haven’t taken off is related to the pain in the neck involved with installing the JRE and plugin — the number of java versions out there that may need to be installed on your machine, and the enormous size of the download needed. The Java Kernel model being proposed for JDK 7 should help on some of this.