javaboutique.internet.com/SpaceFlight/

The SpaceFlight applet simulates flying through space - you change direction by moving the mouse over the applet. It's a lot more impressive than that sounds, honestly.

http://javaboutique.internet.com/SpaceFlight/

mmcelhaney.blogspot.com/2008/10/iron-man-applet.html

This is a spinning cube, displaying a different image from the Iron Man movie on each side. Clicking on it stops it spinning, and moving the mouse around it changes the speed and direction of its rotation.

http://mmcelhaney.blogspot.com/2008/10/iron-man-applet.html

www.jigzone.com

An online jigsaw puzzle game, which lets you solve jigsaws of between 6 and 240+ pieces.

www.jigzone.com

http://java.freenode.net/index.php

An Open Source IRC chat applet that you can embed in your own website.


http://java.freenode.net/index.php?go=1

bfo.co.uk/products/pdf/viewer.jsp

This is an applet version of the pure Java PDF viewer component offered by BFO. It uses a signed applet, so once trusted it can open files from your local machine and display them inside the applet, including support for multi page navigation, zooming, JavaScript and document signatures.

http://bfo.co.uk/products/pdf/viewer.jsp

[Disclaimer: I've just started work at BFO ;-)]

www.falstad.com/circuit

This is an electronic circuit simulator - you can modify and add components like switches, transformers and logic gates and see how they behave in the circuit.

If I was more of an electronics geek I'm sure I could describe this in much more detail, but it's still fun to play around with, even when you have no idea what you're doing.

www.falstad.com/circuit/

www.wordle.net

I originally see this via lifehacker.com.

I've seen word clouds popping up in lots of different locations, this one is a Java Applet based versions.





http://wordle.net/