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Foil 27 Java Features -- It's Distributed

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


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.
One can expect more dynamic uses of Java with Java threads on both Server and Client side communicating with each other. This is illustrated by Java based Collaboratory developed by Vishal Mehra as NPAC/Ece Master's Thesis



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