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Foil 8 Java/HotJava Alpha vs JDK Beta (contd)

From Overview of Java SC95 Tutorial on Web Technologies -- December 4,95. by NPAC Team * See also color IMAGE
Warning: if you are using Alpha, don't do any serious development as you will be likely out of the mainstream soon unless you also watch Beta and monitor differences.
Announcements of December 1995 clarify the medium term future but don't solve near term problems
JAVA will be "open" Web standard
Sun promises browser classes (beta Hot Java) soon -- then we can all compete with Netscape
Netscape renames Livescript as Javascript and this is an interesting subset of Java which is fully interpreted -- use for overall customization of client
Hooked on Java by Java developers Arthur van Hoff, Sami Shaio, Orca Starbuck is (first) serious (but still rather high-level) book on beta Java
  • Several (more detailed) alpha Java books

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