Large Scale Applications (as discussed by Foster) need many forms of parallelism
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Coarse Grain Software Integration or Coordination
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Naturally built into Java through Applet mechanism and networking classes
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Data Parallelism -- needed for "massive parallelism"
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Java needs (runtime and perhaps language) extension to support HPF/HPC++ like data parallelism but Foster's talk has shown that "Java plus message passing" is already here
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Note that Fortran or C plus message passing (PVM,MPI) is dominant implementation technology for data parallelism over last ten years
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It is possible that Java will not "make it" but current momentum is hard to derail!
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Limbo (A T and T) and Active-X (Microsoft) are possibilities
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If Java is not the web language of future, then whatever replaces it must be better and our remarks should be applied to its replacement!
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