Applet
A small program that does a job a larger program is incapable of doing. For example, a Sun Java applet is a file on an Internet web page that provides additional functionality to an Internet browser that is not supported by HTML.
- Visit our Java definition you can see an example of a Java applet that displays your current version of Java and if it is the latest version.
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