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BayFF *this* Wed 26Apr 730pm: Gosling on Java and HotJava
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gnu@toad.com)
Mon Apr 24 20:30:26 1995
From: gnu@toad.com
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 16:31:49 -0700
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pleased to continue its series
of monthly `BayFF' meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area. All EFF
members, guests, and the public are invited.
This meeting will be *this* Wednesday in San Francisco, on April 26,
1995, at 7:30PM. We apologize for the late notice, and hope that you
can come anyway. The gracious donor of our meeting place is:
Wired Magazine
520 Third Street, Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA
+1 415 222 6200 voice
James Gosling will speak on HotJava, which is the next step in Web
browsers. A traditional web browser understands many protocols and
data formats. The code to support these is tied together in one big
lump. In contrast, HotJava understands no protocols or data formats.
What it does understand is how to dynamically link code from elsewhere
on the net into its address space, in a manner that is safe from
"viruses", has good performance, and is architecture-neutral. HotJava
uses the names of things, like protocols, to derive names for classes
that it dynamically links in. One extension to web browsing that
we've added is the ability to attach code fragments to web pages,
enabling interactive content. Pages can contain games, simulations,
live data, complex forms, ....
This talk will cover what his team is trying to do, why they did it,
what HotJava has become as a result, and how it works.
James Gosling is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He
wrote the first version of Emacs for Unix, invented the PostScript-
interpreter-based NeWS window system, and is now leading the HotJava
effort, producing yet another bit of programmable network infrastructure.
There will be plenty of time for general and specific questions,
issues, discussion, meeting people, and socializing with frontier-
minded folks.
To learn about future monthly BayFF meetings, send email to
listserv@eff.org whose first text line is subscribe BayFF .
We hope to see you this Wednesday night!
John Gilmore
Jane Metcalfe
Denise Caruso
(Bay Area members of the EFF Board)
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