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Foil 4 Why We're Interested

From Activities of the Java Grande Forum Numerics Working Group Java Grande Meeting with Sun Microsystems Menlo Park -- March 11 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Portability: Java Virtual Machine
  • new method of delivering components
Access to rich library base
  • GUIs, graphics, ...
Network-aware environment
  • threads, sockets, RMI, ...
Widespread acceptance
  • numerics will be done in Java

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