I have read that Oracle and Browser's Developers (Mozilla, Google, Opera and Microsoft) are going to consider deprecated the Java Applets soon (and block it).
I know there is another questions similar in this web site, but We have an aditional issue. Our applets handle local (client's PC side) hardware, like (for example) a Smartcard usb reader or in another case an Biometric Reader (fingerprint usb reader). HTML5 and PHP doesn't have code to handle client's side Hardware. our webserver is based on Linux, for this reason I think we can't use .Net.
Can you sugest us another development technology that permit us embeed in a website "something" like an applet that handle client's side hardware?
Thanks in advance
Java Web Start is good answer for you. It
allows users to start application software for the Java Platform directly from the Internet using a web browser.