“Applets are back!” was the beginning line of Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology, published in June 2008 in conjunction with the release of Java SE 6 Update 10.

The AppletContext class in the java.applet package contains the two member functions getApplet and getApplets. By using those functions, an applet can find other applets and invoke methods on them.

Multiple vulnerabilities existed in Java 1.6.0_51, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox.

Java applets may yet fulfill their original promise. Demand for a richer Web GUI is growing, and no other technology on the horizon offers Java’s cross-platform, cross-browser portability.

The second is a change to how OS X handles Java, in which the system will now keep the Java plug-in disabled until it is needed. This will appear for applets if you do not have Java enabled.

Java for OS X 2012-006 delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_37. This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web ...

Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle in 2010, introduced Java applets in 1995 and the technology was briefly popular with scientists and educators, who used them to create things such as ...

Sun has not done anything to advance the applet API since its inception. If you go to Sun's JavaSoft Web site, the root page does not have a single applet on it. Even the applet tutorial does not have ...

A poorly designed sandboxed Java applet can’t do much of anything. However, a poorly designed signed Java applet can do pretty much anything that native code can.” ...