[10043] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Java and HTML and well known socket numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Tue Jun 4 13:06:42 1996
To: marnellm@portia.portia.com (Matthew James Marnell)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:57:54 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: megazone@livingston.com, holtrf@destinyusa.com, www-html@w3.org,
www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199606040711.DAA09082@portia.portia.com> from "Matthew James Marnell" at Jun 4, 96 03:11:39 am
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Matthew James Marnell shaped the electrons to say...
>Sorry, I missed this in the first reading. Again, since nobody
>has asked this question, I will. Why are we talking about running
>Java applets on servers? Why did someone go through all that trouble
Check on Sun's Java announcements.
By 1997 they plan to have it so a client can assemble a Java applet on the
fly - say a search routine - and send that applet BACK to the server for
the server to execute or proxy to another server. Little smart frames
running about to and fro.
They made a big deal out of this during JavaOne - and several vendors of
HW and SW said they will be implementing it.
>that keeps up with the Spec) language? Why are we going to use
>Java instead of CGI if we're going to have to execute it back on
>our servers anyway?
That's another thing - Several vendors are pushing Server Side Java applets,
or servlets, as an alternative to CGI for database interfaces, etc.
>I can't think of any reason that anyone would be sending me anything
>to run on the servers. I can see someone downloading applets/apps
There was a list of them discussed at JavaOne - Java is not just a web
thing anymore. There is a lot of planning for clients to make up applets
and toss them to other clients, to servers, through proxies, etc - a bit
Gibsonian but effective.
-MZ
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