A program or group of programs designed for end users. AWT Short for Abstract Windows Toolkit, the Java API that enables programmers to develop Java applications with GUI components, such as windows, buttons, and scroll bars. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. In object-oriented programming, a category of objects, or the applet file itself. For example, there might be a class called shape that contains objects which are circles, rectangles, and triangles.
Programmers write programs in a form called source code.
Source code must go through several steps before it becomes an executable program. The first step is to pass the source code through a compiler, which translates the high-level language instructions into object code. A programming environment integrated into an application. JAR Short for Java Archive, a file format used to bundle all components required by a Java applet. A high-level programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.