Chapter 10. Deploying Applets and Applications

   


  • Applet Basics

  • The Applet HTML Tags and Attributes

  • Multimedia

  • The Applet Context

  • JAR Files

  • Application Packaging

  • Java Web Start

  • Storage of Application Preferences

At this point, you should be comfortable with using most of the features of the Java programming language, and you had a pretty thorough introduction to basic graphics programming in Java. We hope that you agree with us that Java is a nice (albeit not perfect), general-purpose OOP language, and the Swing user interface libraries are flexible and useful. That's nice, but it isn't what created the original hype around Java. The unbelievable hype during the first few years of Java's life (as mentioned in Chapter 1) stemmed from applets. An applet is a special kind of Java program that a Java-enabled browser can download from the Internet and then run. The hopes were that users would be freed from the hassles of installing software and that they could access their software from any Java-enabled computer or device with an Internet connection.

For a number of reasons, applets never quite lived up to these expectations. Recently, Sun developed an alternative approach for Internet-based application delivery, called Java Web Start, that fixes some of the problems of applets.

This chapter shows you how to write and deploy applets and Java Web Start applications, how to package applets and applications for deployment, and how applications access and store configuration information.


       
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    Core Java 2 Volume I - Fundamentals
    Core Java(TM) 2, Volume I--Fundamentals (7th Edition) (Core Series) (Core Series)
    ISBN: 0131482025
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 132

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