This guide explains how to create various Java programs, including applets that travel all over the Internet and run on all types of computers. It shows how to add interactivity and computer power to Web pages on the Internet and on a company's intranet. Advice is given on: how to produce dynamic Web pages that respond to the user; using the Web to give customers and clients access to corporate information; creating sprites, bots and other fun applets that get Web pages noticed; transferring mini-programs among computers without losing or corrupting data; and more. The CD-ROM includes the JDK 2.0 software so that readers can begin programming in Java immediately. Also included is source code from the text as well as sample applets and templates, and other programming tools and utitlities.