Java is a general-purpose object-oriented language developed by Sun with the capability of providing distributed computing through the Web (http://www.javasoft.com). |
Browsers (HotJava, Netscape 2.0/3.0 ..) supporting Java allow arbitrarily sophisticated dynamic multimedia applications inserts called Applets, written in Java, to be embedded in the regular HTML pages and activated on each exposure of a given page. |
From Introduction to the World Wide Web and Web Technologies presentation: Introduction to the www and Web Technologies -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken-Foils prepared December 9 1996