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Foil 30 Why is Java Grande Worth Looking at?

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems RCI North American Annual Member Executive Conference October 13-15 98 -- October 15 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The Java Language has several good design features
  • secure, safe (wrt bugs), object-oriented, familiar (to C C++ and even Fortran programmers)
2 Java has a very good set of libraries covering everything from commerce, multimedia, images to math functions (under development at http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics)
3 Java has best available electronic and paper training and support resources
4 Java is rapidly getting best integrated program development environments
5 Java naturally integrated with network and universal machine supports potentially powerful "write once-run anywhere (badly)" model
6 There is a large and growing trained labor force
7 Can we exploit this in Grande Computing / computational science?

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