1 | This area will evolve rapidly as existing I/O systems get linked to Java with special classes such as those needed to link MPI (HPCC Message Passing) or Nexus (Well known distributed memory thread package) |
2 | One can establish Web Connection with URL class and access documents there |
3 | One can set up a more general URLConnection for more general input/output operations through Web(HTTP) protocol |
4 | One can set up a Socket link which is permanent rather than on again off again Web client-server interaction |
5 | One can send messages and so transfer information between different Applets |
6 | One can (outside Netscape) access same functionality as usual UNIX stdio library |