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Java -- Objected Oriented version of C/C++ supporting Interactive Distributed Computing. Previous Web computing (eg CGI) was server-side. Java allows design and Implementation of balanced Client Server Applications
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Java likely to be a dominant software engineering and Scientific Computing language
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Java will probably be prefered language for development of next generation Web servers (e.g. Jeeves,Jigsaw) and clients
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Java Applets can implement Client Side (and hence scalable) computations
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Much more Computing Power in clients than servers and being client side gives much better response on "small jobs" than powerful servers with latency!
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Java can build customized GUI's and graphics/image processing as in NPAC's Visible Human Viewer (won JARS award Dec 95)
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Java will be used for filters/agents to convert formats etc.
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New Java 1.1 has several enhancements
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Secs 269.2
(From NPAC)