Painting is how the applet displays its content to the user on the screen. Painting occurs when the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) determines that some or all of the screen area that the applet uses needs to be redrawn. This happens when the applet initially loads and becomes visible, when a previously obscured part of the applet becomes visible on the screen, or when the applet itself has requested that its screen area should be redrawn via the repaint() command and the next frame update is due. Coincidentally, painting is not limited to applets, as all graphical interfaces for Java require painting (although not all graphical interfaces expose this fact to the developer directly).
Any Java class that extends java.applet.Applet is an applet. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/applet/Applet.html
Java applet is a program used to run java applications while beans is a compiler used to design java programs (IDE, GUI) :-) GilbertC
There is nothing called DOS applet.. You can run Java applet from DOS..
A Java applet is embedded within a web page, while a Java application will run directly on your computer.
PCH answer small Embedded Java Program.
Java Applet is an application designed to transmit on internet to execute on java compatible browsers. Java Servlet is a server side program used to provide services to clients.
Java applets
An applet is a Java application, this saves files in a .class extension
One can run and compile a Java applet program by agreeing to the terms and downloading it. It is possible to get a compiler online that will compile and run Java programs.
One defense against a hostile java applet is to disable applet functionality on the computer. This would prevent all applets - hostile, benign, and beneficial from executing.
Applet
applets are small programs that can be run on a browser's window or an applet viewer.