HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared July 10 1996
Foil 4 What are Java and HotJava in a NutShell?
From Basic Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics Networking Trip to China and Icase Tutorial -- July 12-28 and June 10-13 96. byGeoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
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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