[CentOS] Is Java insecure ?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/2013 7:59 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> 5. Applets are on the way out, most of the action these days is on
>> server-side Java, and on client-side Java, not browser java.
>
> I suspect you meant to say...
>
> 5. Applets are on the way out, most of the action these days is on
> server-side Java, and on client-side JavaSCRIPT, not browser java.
>
> client side javascript programming is sometimes called AJAX.   Note that
> JavaSCRIPT is not Java, it only looks vaguely similar

Yes, browsers normally execute javascript internally, and there are
some toolkits like GWT to write interactive applications where you
write mostly server-side java and it generates the browser javascript
code for you.

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