
Hmmm, seems like Oracle's stand on Applets has gone from bad to worse. It is slightly off-topic, but depending on how far back they've blocked applets this could single-handedly destroy Java4K. Every time I feel good about Oracle's advancements to the platform, something like this always pops up. (Not that it'll affect a lot of you who disabled it by default anyway

).
My experience with both applets and webstart is this:
- Horrifying portability
- Does not work in later updates of java
- Always some problem getting to work because of hefty deployment configuration xml and server headers
- CACHING issues can cause you to cry
- LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF POP-UPS
- And if you want to do anything half decent, you need unrestricted access to the end-user PC.
- Signing issues, expires
- Missing dependency libraries
But Java is great otherwise, although I've been writing probably lots more javascript code in nodejs than Java code.