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What are Thin Drivers

Posted by Sandeep Thool on May 11, 2001 at 9:51 AM

Thin Drivers
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Thin Drivers are basically written for Applets. When you load
a web page (containing an Applet), the Applet travels all the
way through the network (From: Server To: Client).

Once loaded the applet is loaded on the client machine, it has to make a call back to the server, in order to access other resources (eg: Drivers), because as per design, an Applet can
access resources on its ORIGINATING server ONLY.

Now this being a very IN-EFFICIENT way of communication, the Driver Writers have come up with a driver, that is so LIGHT-WEIGHT, that it can be packaged along with your applet code.

Which again means that when you load an applet, internally the
applet comes along with its OWN DRIVER. So that way, the applet
doesn't have to make a call back to its ORIGINATING SERVER.