RE: webfacing and competing products

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

Someone wrote :

> > This is just not true.  First of all, servlets run on the server.
> > That's why they're called SERVlets.

And Trevor responded :

> Servlets are DOWNLOADED from the server. To the PC. So are 
> fat clients. 

The simple fact is that Java Servlets are not, I repeat *not*, downloaded to 
the PC. Servlets need the J2EE servlet container to work, this is located on 
the web[1] server. The servlet executes on the web tier and sends regular web 
pages i.e. HTML[2] to the browser on the PC.

Java Applets, on the other hand *are* downloaded to the PC.

--phil

[1] Web server + plus Application server (J2EE server such as WebSphere, Orion 
etc.)

[2] In 95% of the time the servlet sends regular HTML to the browser. There are 
other cases where the servlet may send other kinds of data to an application 
other than a browser.