I've found that applets tend to be a bad idea if you're running them on a web server.

Java applets have come a long way due to the increases in speed that we've seen in PC's but Flash is now much more widely accepted, is easier to code and extremely flexible.

In addition, it takes longer to update the JVM than it does to update Flash and people are much more likely to allow a flash update.

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