The Java Language Environment
M. van Steenbergen
Imagine you're a C or C++ software application developer.
You've been at this for quite a while and your job doesn't seem
to be getting any easier. These past few years you've seen the
growth of multiple incompatible hardware architectures, each
architecture supporting multiple incompatible operating
systems, and each platform operating with one or more
incompatible graphical user interfaces. And now you're supposed
to cope with all this and make the applications work in a
distributed client-server environment. The growth of the
Internet, the World Wide Web, and electronic commerce have
introduced new dimensions of complexity into the development
process.
Enter the Java Language Environment.
Beyond Java, there is HotJava, a new WWW browser entirely
built in the Java programming language. Just one example of
employing the Java Language Environment. Extend Java and
HotJava with VRML, VRIP (Virtual Reality Internet Protocol),
public-key encryption, ecash, what have you, and you will see
that the only restriction is your own creativity.