In addition it has been made so that it is completely architecture neutral, with the quirks of the particular platform being handled by the interpreter. Currently the beta only works on Solaris 2.3, however Mac OS and Win32 ports are being carried out in-house. There are obvious and scary implications inherent in having lumps of executable code landing on your machine and running without warning. The team have incorporated a barrage of security features which attempt to prevent this. In brief, the security model is based on interlocking layers of security ranging from features built into from the Java language at the bottom to specific file and network access protections at the top.
Today there are only a few tiny applets that have been designed as small demos.
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