Snowbound is running a three-part blog series on the end of applets and what the future holds for web applications. Check back on Friday for the final installment: Part 1 (Monday): The Clock is Ticking to Replace Your Java Applet Part 2 (Wednesday): Why Browser Plug-Ins are Being Phas

Snowbound is running a three-part blog series on the end of applets and what the future holds for web applications. Check back on Wednesday and Friday for the other installments: Part 1 (Monday): The Clock is Ticking to Replace Your Java Applet Part 2 (Wednesday): Why Browser Plug-Ins

Yesterday, I brought my car to my shiny, huge car dealership. Brand new cars everywhere. The dealership is so busy they have over 100 loaners for their customers. However, what they don’t have is a viewing system for the millions of paper pages of car service record documents they sto

As of September 2015, most people are not able to run Java client software (including applets) in the most popular browser in the USA today. If you’re not up to date on browser popularity, I’m talking about Chrome, which has achieved a market share of 40%-60%, depending on the source.

Let me paint a scenario of a typical company with hundreds or thousands of users handling documents in their everyday work processes. You can safely presume downtime is one of their most critical concerns and one that must be avoided at almost all costs. Let’s also assume that the com