Difference between Applet and Application

Ankit Virparia — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:10:57 +0000

Applet	Application
Small Program	Large Program
Used to run a program on client Browser	Can be executed on stand alone computer system
Applet is portable and can be executed by any JAVA supported browser.	Need JDK, JRE, JVM installed on client machine.
Applet applications are executed in a Restricted Environment	Application can access all the resources of the computer
Applets are created by extending the java.applet.Applet	Applications are created by writing public static void main(String[] s) method.
Applet application has 5 methods which will be automatically invoked on occurance of specific event	Application has a single start point which is main method
Example: import java.awt.; import java.applet.; public class Myclass extends Applet { public void init() { } public void start() { } public void stop() {} public void destroy() {} public void paint(Graphics g) {} }	public class MyClass { public static void main(String args[]) {} }

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