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Foil 6 Java

From Software technologies for the Worl Wide Web-- ECS400 Course Overview ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *
Java is a new general purpose object-oriented language developed at Sun Microsystems. It is intended to be a simpler cleaner language than C++.
Java features support the implementation of dynamic multimedia web pages.
  • It can run in a distributed manner: Java classes, called applets, can be compiler to architecture independent bytecodes which can be downloaded to a Web browser and run on the client machine.
  • New web browsers such as HotJava and Netscape2.0 (& 3.0) allow tags in the web pages to refer to applets on the web server.

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