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title: "What is an applet?"  
description: "What is an applet?"  
author: "Pushpendra Singh"  
published: 2010-10-25  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/178/what-is-an-applet  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is an applet?

A Java applet is an applet delivered to the users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets. Java applets were introduced in the first version of the Java language in 1995. Java applets are usually written in the Java programming language but they can also be written in other languages that compile to Java bytecode

## Answers

### Answer by Pushpendra Singh

A Java applet is an applet delivered to the users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets. Java applets were introduced in the first version of the Java language in 1995. Java applets are usually written in the Java programming language but they can also be written in other languages that compile to Java bytecode


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