A desklet is a desktop widget written in Java, according to Joshua Marinacci who, along with Robert Cooper, released the first preview of AB5k, their Swing-based desklet toolkit.
Desktop widgets have been popular on OS X for a while, and are becoming familiar fixtures of desktops running Windows Vista. Most desktop widgets to date have been written for a native platform. Widgets written in Java, or "desklets," by contrast, can run on any platform for which a Java 6 runtime is available. The term "desklet" was coined by Joshua Marinacci and Robert Cooper, who recently released a preview of their first desklet toolkit, AB5k.
AB5k is a container for running desklets, word for widgets. Desklets are little programs that run inside the container and do one thing very well. Some common desklets include clocks, calendars, news reports, weather, searchers (like Wikipedia) and useless but fun little playthings.
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