Re: What is the best term to use?

[Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>]

Lauren wrote:
> Java uses the term "applet" but that does not mean that "applet" is 
> exclusive to Java technology.  Apparently, other programmers have 
> adopted the term.  I, in my current project, cannot call the applet by 
> another name.  It is not a trademarked term, so I don't see why it 
> cannot be used to refer to other application technology that refers to a 
> small application in an application.  The origin of the term was to 
> described a short application and it evolved to refer to small 
> applications that run in web browsers (bigger applications).  Java does 
> not own the term, but Java technology does use applets.
>  

In the link to the standard definitions that I supplied in
my previous message - http://www.answers.com/topic/applet -
the definitions did not all refer specifically to Java technology
but, as I said, they also did not seem to support a simple
definition that an applet is merely a short application
in another application. Most if not all of the definitions
seem to imply that the applet is a runnable application, which
seems to support Jan's point that calling something an
"applet" implies that it's going to run something and
not, as I said previously, that it's a grouped collection
of functional pieces, which is what Zen seemed to be
referring to in his initial request for a term.

-- Janice

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