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What are Java and ActiveX?

April 26, 2017ActiveX Java

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What are Java and ActiveX?

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Java and ActiveX are two systems that let people attach computer programs to Web pages. People like these systems because they allow Web pages to be much more dynamic and interactive than they could be otherwise. However, Java and ActiveX do introduce some security risk, because they can cause potentially hostile programs to be automatically downloaded and run on your computer, just because you visited some Web page. The downloaded program could try to access or damage the data on your machine, for example to insert a virus. Both Java and ActiveX take measures to protect your from this risk. There has been a lot of public debate over which system offers better security. This page gives our opinion on this debate. Java and ActiveX take fundamentally different approaches to security. We will concentrate on comparing the approaches, rather than critiquing the details of the two systems. After all, details can be fixed. Who are the players? Java was developed by JavaSoft, a division of Sun