JAVA AND INTERNET

Java is strongly associated with the Internet because of the
fact that the first application program written in Java was
HotJava,a web browser to run applets on Internet.Internet users
can use Java to create applet programs and run them locally using
a "java-enabled browser" such as Hotjava.They can also use a
Java-enabled browser to download an applet located on a computer
any where in the Internet and run it on his local computer.In fact
java applets have made the internet a true extension of teh storage
system of the local computer.

JAVA FEATURES

The inventors of Java wanted to design a language which could offer
solutions to some of the problems encountered in modern programming
They wanted the language to be not only reliable,portable and
distributed but also simple,compact and interactive.Sum Microsystems
officially describes Java with the following features:

1. Compiled and Interpreted
   
2. Platform-Independent and portable
   
3. Object-oriented
   
4. Robust and Secure
   
5. Distributed
   
6. Familiar,simple and small
   
7. Multithreaded and Interactive
   
8. High perfomance
   
9. Ease of development
   
10. Scalability and Performance
    
11. Monitoring and Manageability
    
12. Desktop Client
    
13. core XML support
    
14. Supplementary character support
    
15. JDBC row set
    

JAVA EVOLUTION

JAVA HISTORY

Java is a general purpose,objecto-oriendted programming lanugage
developed by Sun Microsytems of USA in 1991. Originally called Oak
by James gosling,one of the inventors of the language,JAVA was
designed for the development of software for consumer electronic
devices like TVs,VCRs.The goal had a strong impact on the
development team to make the language simple,portable and highly
reliable.

The JAVA team which included patric Naughtom discovered
that the existing languages like C and C++ had limitations in terms
of both reliability and portability.However, they modelled their
new language Java on C and C++ that were considered as sources
of problems and thus made Java a really simple,reliable,portable
and powerful.