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You could actually call into JavaScript from Applets, using something called LiveConnect. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/in...

Was it simply/easy? No. But, you probably wouldn't want to.. The DOM is a crappy way to build an application UI. Someday we might figure that out.

The concept of the DOM is so widely considered to be useful in declaring user interfaces, that multiple languages have copied it.

The HTML DOM sucks, but what other DOM is widely available and already installed on literally every machine on the planet?

If you consider custom elements, how is it different from any other way of building ui?