A desktop application is installed on a single desktop computer, the data is stored locally on that computer or perhaps on a network server. Other desktop applications might be installed on a network server, they are local to that network. Web applications run via a web server, the program and data are available anywhere the Internet is available.
Do you mean the difference between RAM and ROM? If that is what you meant then ROM is what is used to read discs that are put into the computer, but RAM is used to temporarily hold memory from desktop and web based applications.
ActiveX
All the web applications are distributed but not vice versa...
The best active desktop applications are Desktop Earth, Active Desktop, Web Slices, Xemico, Digital Scepter,Softpedia, CNET, Soft See, and Software Geek.
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Microsoft's user interface design tool for creating rich graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications
Java is primarily used to create desktop applications/software while PHP is used to make web applications/websites.Ofcourse both support website/web and desktop applications but you would find very few who interchange those two.Java is complex while PHP is a bit simpler.Java has a massive library while PHP has a small but quite useful library.Generally speaking JAVA developer earns more then PHP counterpart
A notebook is a smaller computer that is mostly used for web surfing. A laptop is a fully functional computer that can replace a desktop computer's functionality.
If the desktop application you mean would be run on a web browser - Then the answer is YES. STRUTS is an open source framework used for the development of web based java applications using other J2EE technologies like JSP, Servlets and XML.
In truth, there's almost no difference between the HTML used in web 2.0 applications, and the HTML used in all other HTML applications. The difference is mainly in the way that the user interacts with the page, and this is provided mainly by the tighter coupling of JavaScript and backend programming like PHP, as well as the ability to transfer data between both using asynchronous calls (AJAX.)
== == The basic difference between a web server and an application server is Webserver can execute only web applications i,e servlets and JSPs and has only a single container known as Web container which is used to interpret/execute web applications Application server can execute Enterprise application, i,e (servlets, jsps, and EJBs) it is having two containers 1. Web Container(for interpreting/executing servlets and jsps) 2. EJB container(for executing EJBs). it can perform operations like load balancing , transaction demarcation etc etc