Comments on: Processing: Revival of the Java Applet?

By: Ed Holdsworth

Ed Holdsworth — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:06:05 +0000

Looks good! Applets still play a role for us in hidden non gui components for serverside communications, i.e. allowing data updates without page refreshes and executing javascript from the applet to update the page.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:27:52 +0000

@Jim looks great! I note it still requires a Java download on Windows and the digital signature needs to be signed by a CA that is trusted by Joe Blogg's machine. Unfortunately I'd have to say this is too small a step, too late in the game to become mainstream.

However, from a technical point of view... I think it's a pretty damn impressive project! I'd never have thought it was possible to have Javascript speak to Applets so fluently.

By: Jim R. Wilson

Jim R. Wilson — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:01:59 +0000

Hi Sam,

I'm always interested when people claim that applets are dead. I'd love to have your opinion of trephine.

The principal goal of trephine is to expose the full power of Java through JavaScript and a simple api. And yes, it's an applet.

Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!