What is an Applet?

According to Sun "An applet is a small program that is intended not to be run on its own, but rather to be embedded inside another application....The Applet class provides a standard interface between applets and their environment."

Four definitions of applet:

A small application
A secure program that runs inside a web browser
A subclass of java.applet.Applet
An instance of a subclass of java.applet.Applet

public class Applet extends Panel

java.lang.Object
   |
   +----java.awt.Component
           |
           +----java.awt.Container
                   |
                   +----java.awt.Panel
                           |
                           +----java.applet.Applet

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Last Modified February 10, 1999
Copyright 1997-1999 Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu