Re: Return of the Applets?
Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:
You're mixing apples and oranges. Java is NOT JavaScript - or vice
versa. They are two different languages with two different purposes.
That must be some kind of reflex some people can't control!
But no one has claimed that Java was JavaScript. Relax.
The ONLY thing they have in common are the letters "J", "v" and two "a"s.
But since you insist, let me give you some factual information.
- Both are trademarks of Oracle.
- JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich who wrote:
?The diktat from upper engineering management
was that the language must "look like Java".?
- of course the syntax and semantics of both
languages have a lot in common (I am giving courses
in both languages and my course notes for both Java
and JavaScript can be read in the web, albeit in
German language).
- JavaScript is a part of Java in the sense that every
Oracle JDK contains a JavaScript interpreter, so one
can use JavaScript to do just what the name suggests:
to script Java programs.
- when running in the browser, the LiveConnect
technology allows Java and JavaScript code
to communicate with each other.
- In today's web, JavaScript often complements Java,
with JavaScript running on the client and Java running
on the server.
- depending on the source used, sometimes Java and
sometimes JavaScript is the most-often used
programming language.