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# Overview: Writing and Using HotJava Applets

This document tells you how to create an applet -- a program written in the Java language to run within HotJava -- and include it in an HTML page. HotJava, like Mosaic and Netscape, is a browser for the World Wide Web. Because HotJava can execute applets, it is more flexible than other browsers. Pages with applets can still be read by browsers such as Netscape, since those browsers simply ignore the new tag that specifies the applet.

> If you're running HotJava, then this little guy is waving at you at the top of this page. We supply the applet that performs this animation. (We also supply an applet that plays sounds.)

From here, you have several choices of what to see next:

- You can learn how to include an applet (such as the animation and sound applets we provide) in an HTML page -- without programming.
- You can go to a page that lets you quickly create an applet.
- To see a list of every topic in this document, click the `Contents` link at the top or bottom of this (or any other) page.
- To read all the pages of this document in order, click the `Next` link at the top or bottom of this page and the pages that follow.

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