Applets - Applications
Applets = Small Applications.
- placed on HTML pages,
- downloaded by the browser,
- executed on the browser’s JVM,
- severe security restrictions,
- four entry point methods,
- characteristics of a container for components.
Gui Applications = Normal Applications.
- execute by the interpreter,
- no security restrictions,
- one “static public main(String[] argv)” entry point,
- need to instantiate a subclass of Frame or Window.