Applets have had a very tough time in the past few years getting a huge amount of bad press because of the security issues they have been having and Oracle's slow pace in patching the JVM.  The continued coverage has given applets a very bad name culminating in even the US department of homeland security recommending that users uninstall Java and most operating systems and browsers preventing applets from running without the user jump through some quite complicated hoops.

For any product based on applets this is a huge and incredibly frustrating problem.  Absent their security woes applets have a lot of great features.  You can; deploy to multiple operating systems with one build rather than setting up multiple installers, pass server side parameters into the applet when the page is generated, and have the user launch your app direct from the browser. 

These aren't easy features to replicate, but JWrapper does replicate all of them.

JWrapper has been designed to replace applets completely and allows you to run a cross platform build (even on a raspberry pi) that produces signed, branded native apps for all of Windows, Linux and MacOS.  Your apps built with JWrapper automatically get a custom JavaScript downloader to embed in your website and we even have Java APIs so your server can parameterise your app as it downloads to your customers, just like an applet.

Applets were a great step and had a lot of promise, but JWrapper offers you everything applets ever could, and a whole lot more.