What is the difference between an application, an applet, and a servlet?
An application is a standalone program. An applet is a downloadable program that runs in a web browser. Typically an applet has restricted access to the client system for reasons of security. Other than that it is virtually no different from a regular Java technology-enabled program. Look at skyview for an example of an excellent applet. A servlet is a Java technology-enabled program whose input comes from a server and whose output goes to a server. Other than that it is virtually no different from a regular Java technology-enabled program. Think of a servlet as an application, but one that (like an applet) requires a context in which to run, namely web server software. Servlets are used like CGI scripts, but take much less processor resources, and they allow the server end to be written in the Java programming language as well as the client. There is a page with much servlet information at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/servlets_intro.html There is a servlet tutorial at http://j
