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Java Grande in a Nutshell

We describe Java Grande Forum -- motivation and current status motivation discusses Java as a language and where it is clearly good and where it could be good! This has numerical and distributed computing working groups and one project is a community activity to define

Seamless interfaces allowing universal access to general hosts can be CORBA facility or Java framework

Table of Contents for Java Grande in a Nutshell

001 Java Grande in a Nutshell
002 Abstract of EuroTools Java Grande Presentation
003 Why is Java Worth Looking at?
004 What is Java Grande?
005 What is the Competition?
006 Why could Java succeed where Fortran and C++ failed?
007 Synergy of Parallel Computing and Web Internetics as Unifying 
    Principle
008 The 3 Roles             of Java
009 Java and multi-tier Grande Systems
010 What is Goal of Java Grande Forum?
011 Two types of Things we are doing
012 Activities of the Java Grande Forum I
013 Gosling on Operator  Overloading
014 Activities of the Java Grande Forum II
015 Where are we now?
016 Java Seamless Computing Framework or CORBA Facility for 
    Computation
017 What/Why is a Framework?
018 JDBC Database Framework Architecture
019 Proposed Java Computing Services Framework I
020 Proposed Java Computing Services Framework II
021 Possible Services in a Java Computing Framework - I
022 Possible Services in a Java Computing Framework - II
023 What should you do as a Java Grande believer?
024 Multi Tier Gateway Architecture
025 Multi-Server Gateway Tier