My company is considering whether to go the Asp.net or Java route for web based database applications. I would like to get a further a better understanding of Java. With ASP.net you have to set up a server with the dotnet framework and configure IIS. My understanding is that with Java database applications you create an applet and embed it in a HTML page and give you users a shortcut to the HTML page. IE has Java embedded in it so no setup is required on the server. Is this correct?