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Foil 4 What are Java and HotJava in a NutShell?

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 1:Introduction to Java Language Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
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 2.0/3.0/4.0 at the moment!

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