Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Applets? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:16:22 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <78ead945-71d8-4605-a992-e93168b39d11@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: NIM2IeSPVd0kE3mU1mieXw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32598 On 9/16/2015 8:59 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > SpreadTooThin writes: >> What does Chrome expect developers to develop in? >> Go? > > What problem do you want to solve with applets? > > Well, ... > > One one hand¹, everybody says applets are dead. > (Already years ago, everybody told me so.) > > One the other hand, the most recent »The Java EE 7 Tutorial« > from 2014 says: > > »The Java EE specification defines the following Java EE > components: > > * Application clients and applets are components > that run on the client. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ > > * Java Servlet, JavaServer Faces, and JavaServer > Pages (JSP) technology components are web > components that run on the server.«, > > as if applets where alive! > > Applets do not seem to work on the internet anymore, > but possibly in some intranets. Those application clients must be EJB clients outside of app server. And in that context Java applications and Java applets are the available options. Native apps, .NET apps, Flash, SilverLight, JavaScript etc. are not options as they can not make EJB calls. The facts that EJB clients outside of app server and Java applets are both very rare today does not make them non-options. Arne