Not really, Java Web Start essentially provided a way to download a fully-capable Java application running on normal JVM, from a click on website.
It's been used in place of applets a lot, but mostly because you could provide a complex application that opened in a new window with a click (assuming you dealt with the CA shenanigans).
It couldn't interact with DOM unless it accessed a browser over something like COM.
It's been used in place of applets a lot, but mostly because you could provide a complex application that opened in a new window with a click (assuming you dealt with the CA shenanigans).
It couldn't interact with DOM unless it accessed a browser over something like COM.