Along with Java 6 Update 10, released 14 days ago, comes a JavaScript file deployJava.js hosted at http://java.sun.com, that, among other things, helps in deploying Java applets
JPSPAN provides tools to "hook up" PHP and Javascript, for the purpose of fetching data from PHP into a web page which has already loaded, without reloading the entire page
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