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From Web Technologies for Education Master Presentation Workshop on Education and Training Technology -- NIST -- 25 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color GIF
- Java -- Objected Oriented version of C/C++ supporting Interactive Distributed Computing. Previous Web computing (eg CGI) was server-side. Java allows design and Implementation of balanced Client Server Applications
- Java likely to be a dominant software engineering language
- Java will probably be prefered language for development of next generation Web servers and clients
- Java Applets can implement Client Side (and hence scalable) Simulations to bring to life educational concepts e.g. neural networks, ecosystems, math functions etc.
- Java can build customized GUI's and graphics/image processing as in NPAC's Visible Human Viewer (won JARS award Dec 95)
- Java will be used for filters/agents to convert formats etc.
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