[1911] in java-interest
Re: Ready or not, here it comes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Sep 19 21:02:36 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:12:29 -0700
From: Arthur van Hoff <avh@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: "Glen C. Perkins" <Glen.Perkins@MediaCity.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Glen,
> Just in case you haven't already done so, check out Netscape's new
> announcements at
>
> http://home.netscape.com/
>
> Netscape is clearly on its way to becoming a multiplatform operating system
> for communicative apps (which could be most apps in a few short years.)
>
> It appears as though there will be APIs to drive the Macromedia Director
> player, the Acrobat viewer, a RealAudio player, and any other plug-in that
> conforms to the Netscape APIs from Java programs.
>
> Am I misinterpreting this?
I think you are. The Plug-in APIs are completely seperate from the
Java applet APIs.
> I don't see any docs for the Netscape Navigator
> scripting language yet, but I'm assuming it's just Java plus the netscape.*
> classes, and I'm assuming that the netscape.* classes will contain some
> generic interfaces for driving "plug-ins" that conform to the Netscape
> plug-in API. Does that sound right?
No. It is completely seperate from Java.
> I also imagine we will also have access to netscape.* APIs for e-mail, ftp,
> newsgroups, and all the other goodies built into the new Netscape. Maybe
> Sun was asked to put their former alpha3 networking APIs into a sun.*
> hierarchy because Netscape wanted to do a much fancier version of all of
> them than the Java team had put together, not because Netscape didn't
> intend to implement them at all. If I'm right, we can just consider it a
> massive addition of resources to the Java team.
You are wrong again.
> I wonder how long it will be before Netscape offers to buy Java (and the
> Java team) from Sun outright. I hear Netscape recently raised a little
> money....
Sun has complete control of the Java language and the Java Applet APIs.
We are cooperating with Netscape to make these a standard for the internet.
The price would be too high anyway... 8^)
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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