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Foil 4 What are Java and HotJava in a NutShell?
From Jan 22 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- Java Lecture 1 -- Overview CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 22 1997. byNancy McCracken * See also color IMAGESecs 48.9
What is Java?
A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architechture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
What is HotJava?
Web browser written entirely in Java-based language
Toolkit for building Web-aware applications
Alpha version received a lot of attention from april to november 1995 but the latest version only came in april 1996 and has not been evaluated in detail by NPAC
It is clearly less sophisticated than Netscape 2.0/3.0 at the moment!
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