Java has been called the vehicle by which developers will be able to bring dynamic application behavior to the Web. Users can download applets from either local or remote Web servers for execution inside popular Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator.
Applets run disconnected from the server, just like native applications.
For instance, there is no native capability to link to local or remote database servers directly from Java applets. Sun Microsystems Inc. At press time, the JDBC standard was still in a state of flux. However, the excitement surrounding JDBC assures its initial acceptance into the hype-driven world of Java. This means that all ODBC-enabled databases should work with JDBC without change. Like Microsoft's ODBC, JDBC gives Java developers a common API to most relational databases.