Cisco uses applets to get a VPN client onto your machine. I enjoy playing an online pool game that's an applet (http://www.funkypool.com , also http://www.funkysnooker.com). My old company in the UK continues to use a Java applet with C library support (hence signed) to display video from live security cameras.
Other than isolated cases I'm sure it's disappearing in favour of HTML5. If we could have proper OS-level sandboxing so that a Windows user could download an .exe, .jar, etc., knowing that the program could only access what it's given permission to, I think we could see a resurgence in desktop apps, especially given their simpler programming model. Not necessarily applets, just desktop apps. Android and iPhone do this and people have little problem downloading an app; I hope desktop OSs catch up. On Aug 30, 2012 6:39 PM, "Jon Kiparsky" <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought applets had died out years ago... > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:36 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> That's a great solution. Kill Applets/JWS. Maybe they could put those >> resources into something useful. They lost the UI wars (esp in the >> browser) many years ago. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Puybaret <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The most weird thing is that Oracle didn't communicate on its web site >>> about his issue yet. :-( >>> Do they want to kill Applets and JWS or what? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Java Posse" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/Hd0qa0F-uyAJ. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
