Java AppletsApplet Capabilities°Applets can usually make network connections to the host they come from. °Applets running within a Web browser can easily cause HTML documents to be displayed. °Applets can invoke public methods of other applets on the same page. °Applets that are loaded from the local file system have none of the restrictions that applets loaded over the network do. °Although most applets stop running once you leave their page, they don't have to. Applet Restrictions°An applet cannot load libraries or define native methods. °Applets cannot ordinarily read or write files on the host that is executing it. °Applets cannot make network connections except to the host it came from. °Applets cannot start any program on the host that is executing it. °Applets cannot read certain system properties. °Windows that an applet brings up look different than windows that an application bring up. |