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Foil 8 Java/HotJava Alpha vs JDK Beta Situation -- HotJava/Books

From CPS616 Lectures on Java CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Release of Beta/1.0 HotJava expected soon and could be very interesting technically for certainly alpha HotJava was very helpful in building customized Graphical User Interfaces
  • Also raises questions about Netscape's business model and Netscape specific HTML extensions.
  • HotJava allows others who do not like Netscape's GUI or HTML extensions to challenge with a base system (modular browser) that has better architecture than current Netscape
Hooked on Java by Java developers Arthur van Hoff, Sami Shaio, Orca Starbuck is (first) serious (but still rather high-level) book on beta Java
Substantial tutorial and report material available on line http://www.javasoft.com

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