| Popular TCP/IP based protocols such as FTP or HTTP are supported in terms of network protocol classes. This facilitates various forms of distributed processing. New protocols (e.g. PVM etc.) can added and dynamically installed. |
| Distributed computing model of Java is mainly client-server, with Java compiler preparing the opcodes at the server side, and Java interpreter executing it at the client side. |
| Some more dynamic forms of Java/HotJava distributed processing are being explored recently by "early adopters". For example, a distributed Pong game in which two HotJavas bounce the ball off the common Web server, or Java+MBONE based World-Wide collaboratory environment. |