HotJava
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 HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP. |
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| Developer(s) | Sun Microsystems |
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| Stable release | 3.0 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | web browser |
| Website | http://java.sun.com/products/archive/hotjava/index.html |
HotJava (later called HotJava Browser to distinguish it from HotJava Views) is a modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems implemented in Java. It was the first browser to support Java applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology. It has since been discontinued and is now no longer supported.
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[edit] Origins
In 1994, a team of Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the internet browser Mosaic. It was based on the Java programming language. The name WebRunner was a tribute to the Blade Runner movie.
WebRunner's first public demonstration was given by John Gage and James Gosling at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference.
[edit] Usage
HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.
More critically, HotJava suffered from the performance limitations of Java virtual machine implementations of the day (both in speed and in memory consumption) and was consequently quite slow.[1]
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[edit] External links
- HotJava Browser
- HotJava @ Evolt
- Java Technology: the Early Years
- What is HotJava?
- History has a Lesson for HotJava
- History of Java
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