Go Up to Deploying InterClient Programs as Applets
The following table displays some of the pros and cons of applet deployment.
Pros and cons of applet development
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- The applet is platform-independent; the program is available to everyone
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- An applet cannot open network connections to arbitrary hosts; it can only communicate with the server from which it was deployed (the Web server). Therefore, you could not use an applet if your program needs to access data from more than one server
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- All code resides on the server, so if code changes, it needs to be updated only in one place
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- Applets cannot access local files, so you could not, for example, use applet code to read or write from your local file system
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- Response time for database applets on the Internet will be slower than for database applications on a LAN
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