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Re: Downloading of code implementing new features (Was: questions after Java talk...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck McManis)
Fri Sep 1 15:02:15 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:26:55 -0700
From: cmcmanis@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
To: fam@camilo.ist.utl.pt
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
>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".
That is of course the point. One "vision" (and I use the term sparingly because
of its abuse :-) of the Java project was that the internet had gone through a
tremendous spurt of innovation when Mosaic and HTTP hit critical mass. That
slowed by an order of magnitude when the limits of HTML were reached. By replacing
the protocol itself, with a protocol to load a protocol, the innovation is
re-enabled. However to prevent chaos there has to be a common framework in which
to innovate. Sun has offered Java as a candidate to be that framework.
>Is there any documents already available about this at Sun? Does anyone else
>know related papers?
I've not heard of any but then again I've been pretty busy. Please forward pointers
to any you find. Thanks,
--Chuck
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