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Applets vs. Portlets?

824313Dec 15 2010 — edited Dec 16 2010
What are the primary differences between applets and portlets? Would creating an application that manages the layout of a set of portlets be similar to an application that manages the layout of a set of applets? What is the code returned to a web browser like when it is coming from a portlet as compared to when running an applet that provides similar functionality? Thanks in advance for any help.

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Kayaman
user13488389 wrote:
What are the primary differences between applets and portlets?
About the same as between apples and tyrannosaurus rexes. Don't let the "let" (see what I did there?) ending fool you, applets and portlets have very little in common.

An applet is similar to a flash element, a portlet is related to web applications. Only a portlet returns HTML code.

For more information, consult your nearest tutorial on applets and/or portlets.
abillconsl
Kayaman wrote:
user13488389 wrote:
What are the primary differences between applets and portlets?
About the same as between apples and tyrannosaurus rexes.
Since no human actually knows what a tyrannosourus rex was, that is like comparing a raw class Apple to a Generic wildcard class <? extends Animal>
811778
abillconsl wrote:
Kayaman wrote:
user13488389 wrote:
What are the primary differences between applets and portlets?
About the same as between apples and tyrannosaurus rexes.
Since no human actually knows what a tyrannosourus rex was, that is like comparing a raw class Apple to a Generic wildcard class <? extends Animal>
Perhaps more like comparing an Apple to OldDiscardedRottenAppleCore? :)
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