Applet to Servlet Communication

Posted January 28th, 2000
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Java Applets and servlets can be used together in the design of today’s multitiered web applications. Applets provide a convenient mechanism for building powerful, dynamic interfaces to applications, while servlets give us a highly efficient means to handle requests on a web or application server. Due to limitations imposed on applets by the browser security model, getting data and messages into or out of an applet isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. In this article I explain the restrictions facing developers in the applet-servlet architecture and explore several different communications tactics that enable data transfer between them. Download a PDF version of this article.

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