There are (at least) 3 Major Roles for JAVA in Computation -- i.e. it has a role at each layer
Java for the Graphical User Interface and client side analysis systems, including visualization: Java has unique advantages over other languages
Java for Coarse Grain Software Integration: as in collaboration and metacomputing
- Java has unique advantages over other languages
Java as a high performance scientific language: for “inner” (and outer) loops
- Here both parallel and sequential issues are important
- Java as good as other languages with higher performance than C++ and advantages of object oriented programming over Fortran and C