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What are Java applets?
Unlike ordinary applications, which reside on the user's hard drive, a Java applet resides instead on a Web server. When a Web page containing a Java applet is viewed with a Java-compatible browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.x, Netscape Communicator 4.x, and Microsoft Internet Explorer, the applet's code is automatically downloaded to your computer and executed within the browser. (This is different from simply being 'parsed' by the browser along with the HTML code, as in JavaScript). Java applets can work this way because they are so much smaller than conventional applications, and take little time to transfer across the phone lines that connect your computer to the server where the applet originates.
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