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[]) {}
}