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Foil 11 Java Overview (I)

From Distributed Simulation (DIS,HLA) HPCC and the Object Web Visit to ARL Aberdeen -- June 5-6 97. by Wojtek Furmanski
Highlights: simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral, portable, multithreaded, dynamic.
History: Created by Green Project at Sun as a mobile language for consumer electronic/interactive TV. Repackaged in '95 as an Internet Language. Rapidly adopted by the software industry in '96/'97.

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