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Foil 146 Java Features -- It's Architecture-Neutral

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 C/C++ programming in a heterogeneous network environment requires use and compatibility across several vendor platforms and the corresponding compilers. This problem is solved in Java by designing platform-independent binary representation called Java bytecode (or opcode).
2 Java compiler (written in Java and platform-independent) reads Java source bytecode.
3 These bytecodes are shipped to client machines upon browser requests.

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