JAVA

Sun Microsystems' Java is a programming language for adding animation and other action to Web sites developed by Sun Microsystems. Java was originally called OAK, and was designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes. Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the World Wide Web.

Java is designed to be platform independent

Similar to C++ in many ways, but Java is optimized to be a portable, object-oriented  language.
Ideally, programs written in Java will run on all makes and models of  computers. Java applets are written in Java but are not compiled into a machine-specific form. A single Java applet can run on several different kinds of computers, such as  UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows.

Why use JAVA?

The small applications (called applets) that Java creates can play back on any graphical system that's Web-ready, but your Web browser has to be Java-capable.  When a web page visitor links to your Java powered web page, the web server downloads the web page HTML file and then the Java applets, much like an image is loaded, and attached to a web page.  For the the average web site designer Java Applets are easier to use than CGI, because they run from the same PC as the browser, rather than interacting with a server.

Where to get applets?

Applets are Java Applications. Like most other simple applications, you could buy them, as well as find them along the web as shareware and freeware applications.
If you are really ambitious, you could learn to write your own.

How to use applets?

Using an already made applet is as simple as enterning any other HTML tags.
To call an applet from a web page you simply use an HTML tag called <APPLET>
While the application is written in JAVA, there may be things you can do to it to configure it for your own personal use. These adjustments are done through <PARAM> tags.

Other Java technologies and terms...

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