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Re: Return of the Applets?

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In article <applets-20150407183812@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

> Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> writes:
> >Applets died because their API and packaging is a complete wreck.  
> 
>   Yet the quite recent Java EE 7 tutorial at Oracle says:
>                               ===
>       ť1.3.2 Java EE ComponentsŤ ... ť
>     
>       The Java EE specification defines the following Java EE
>       components:
> 
>       ˇ Application clients and applets are components that
>       run on the client.        =======
> 
>       ˇ Java Servlet, JavaServer Faces, and JavaServer Pages
>       (JSP) technology components are web components that run
>       on the server.
>       
>       ˇ EJB components (enterprise beans) are business
>       components that run on the server.Ť

GUI event handling may have been ironed out but there's currently a lot 
of FUBAR in applet security and signing.  The way that Oracle patched up 
a lot of applet security holes results in signed JARs that might only be 
capable of running on a specific version of a JRE even when the bytecode 
is compatible.


> >number and pixel crunching difficult.  (Java sucks at arrays of objects 
> >but arrays of primitives work well.)
> 
>   Really! Herb Sutter reported how someone just put all his
>   objects of the same class into a single array (for 3 key
>   classes) and his game ran 50 times faster (compared to
>   scattered heap allocation).
> 
>   Today, not only do we have cache, but we have prefetchers.
> 
>   Oracle could define an annotation for classes that means
>   that all objects of this class should reside within a 
>   single array.

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Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-06 21:31 -0700
  Re: Return of the Applets? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-04-07 20:22 +0200
    Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-08 22:17 -0700
      Re: Return of the Applets? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-04-10 17:11 +0200
  Re: Return of the Applets? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2015-04-08 22:22 -0700

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