[PRL] quick question about JS/REST, etc

[Daniel Pinto de Mello e Silva]

Hi, I'm a little confused about the comments about client-side
JavaScript on the REST thread from last month.

What's the difference between JavaScript applets and Java applets?
Well, other than:

* It's convenient for a server to generate some JS code for each
request, but inconvenient (slow) for a server to generate a Java .class
file and force the browser to load the new Java class for each request.

* JS in a browser has access to the current page object, so it can read
from and write to any widget/DOM-node on the current page, whereas Java
applets read from other applets on the page and write to an AWT/Swing
pane.

* JavaScript is not Java.

By the way, is this any different from Microsoft XAML over IE?  Because
the three look almost the same to me.

Daniel