It is easy to make a Java applet and JavaScript code talk with each other. This article explores the mechanisms used to make bidirectional communications happen. In addition, you discover which of ...

Most Java developers and JavaScript developers understand that besides the four letters “J-A-V-A,” JavaScript and Java have very little in common other than some C-like heritage.

Instead of “stepping up” from JavaScript to Java, as many nascent Web programmers are doing, a seasoned technical professional can “step down” from Java or C++ to JavaScript and create ...

The JavaScript programming language, developed by Netscape, Inc., is not part of the Java platform. JavaScript, does not create applets or stand-alone applications.

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.