Welcome to the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment. This provides complete runtime support for Java 2 applications.
The runtime environment includes the Java Plug-in which supports running the Java 2 environment inside Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Note that the Java 2 runtime environment does not replace the existing Java environment provided with your browser. Old applets will still get the browser's default Java environment. New web pages designed for Java 2 can use special HTML tags to invoke the Java 2 Runtime Environment.
See the Java Plug-in page for more information on using the Java plug-in.
See the Java 2 Platform page for more information on the Java 2 Environment.