The applet WebLoadFile has been released many years ago, when Java was a very big trend in the world of programming, and especially in the World Wide Web. Since then, it has been used by many people in order to have a pure client-side solution to read files located on the same server.

The technologies used by WebLoadFile are still working (LiveConnect allows controlling the applet with JavaScript, Java itself still runs in the web browsers (though is must sometimes be installed manually). However, using applets for non-graphical applications nowadays is not really state-of-the-art anymore.

Additionally, I have not programmed in Java for quite some time, mostly for professional reasons (I have been working very much with .NET lately, and especially ASP.NET). All these reasons caused me to archive the WebLoadFile page, and to stop maintaining it. It means that I won't be testing in the newer browsers anymore, and that I won't release new versions of WebLoadFile in the future.

WebLoadFile is still available for free download, and the zip file includes the source code, so if anyone is interested in taking over and creating new versions, contact me!

CommTest was used to demonstrate a programming concept in Java: When an object is stored in the static memory of the virtual machine, it is available to all other objects in the same process (depending of course on the visibility).

So it's possible to use this feature to have two applets communicating with each other directly (i.e. without resorting to JavaScript), simply by getting a reference to each other stored as a static variable!

Just as for WebLoadFile above, the concept is still valid and still works in all the browsers I tested into, but I am not programming in Java anymore, which led me to archive this page.

Waba allows to program Java for a Palm device. It offers a subset of Java classes, as well as some specific UI elements. I experimented with Waba quite some time ago, and never really got far into it. However, this page describes how to make a Waba application work on a Palm device.