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Downloading of code implementing new features (Was: questions after Java talk...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Filipe Andre Martins)
Fri Sep 1 14:17:25 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 95 16:34:47 +0100
From: Filipe Andre Martins <fam@camilo.ist.utl.pt>
To: cmcmanis@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
Hello Java fellows,
On September 1, Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@scndprsn.eng.sun.com> wrote
>
>> The idea of a browser asking a server for code to implement a new content
>> type or protocol that the browser doesn't uderstand was mentioned in the
>> talk and is also discussed on your web page. The presenter at the talk
>> indicated there was a requirement of some server-side support for this
>> mechanism - is this really the case?
>
>This is not the case, the code is loaded with the HTTP protocol.
>
>> ... Can you provide more information
>> about how this (second request to get code to implement new features)
>> mechanism works?
>
>Well it was a bit fuzzy in alpha because we weren't sure whether we
>wanted to document/support it or not. This should be much cleaner in
>beta (and have better documentation)
I'm very interested in this field of downloading of new tools and (why not?)
protocols. Having a sucessful way of doing it means, in the long run, the end
of 'closed' communication software-implemented standards, since they will all
be "updatable".
Is there any documents already available about this at Sun? Does anyone else
know related papers?
Thank you in advance
Filipe Martins
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