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Re: General interest Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff.Kesselman@netcom.com)
Thu Jun 15 14:38:14 1995
From: Jeff.Kesselman@netcom.com
To: "Henri BROUCHOUD - FT.CNET/LAA/EIA/AIA" <brouchou@lannion.cnet.fr>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 11:14:58 +0000
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 17:44:26 +0200
> From: "Henri BROUCHOUD - FT.CNET/LAA/EIA/AIA" <brouchou@lannion.cnet.fr>
> To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> Subject: General interest Question
> Hello ,
>
> I am very new to Java and try to evaluate how useful it could be for my work.
> I have a few question :
>
> - As far as I have understood, a "client" part of a java application
> (HotJava for instance) can ask a "server" part to send him a java portion
> of code across the network and execute it in local. In this case we can say
> that the code migration is done "on demand". Is it possible to imagine the
> invert process ? I mean that an application decide to send a java code
> (why not itself) to another guy, and execute on the other machine
> ("a la" Telescript).
> Ex : I have updated some information on my personnal database, I'd like to
> notify the changes to other machines.
Thisand your WWW question below make show a common confusion.
Java is a architecture netural, bytecode inetrpretetd language with
DLLS. Sure, its possible to do what you ask in Java, you jnust have
to write the programs to do it.
HotJava is a WWW browser written in Java. it is designed specificly
for the downloading of protocols and applets from web pages to it in
order to give a web server the ability to program the client machine.
Is that clearer?
>
> - Is there any plan to port Java/Hotjava on OS/2 ?
>
SUN hasnn't said they plan on doing it BUT the next versions of SMART
and OS/2 will (according to a source of mien in IBM) know all abotu
the WINNT/WIN95 APIs, so a port at that point aught to be pretty
trivial. (Run SMART and then tweak the output.)
> - Java seems to be very WWW oriented, am I wrong ?
>
Common confusion, see above.
> - What is the relationship between Java and the Corba standard ? I didn't read
> any mention about Corba in the paper I have read. Corba pretend to be an
> industrial solution for distributed application, and then to solve some of
> the problems discussed in the Java Language White Paper.
> Moreover, there are project to provide a Corba based environment for the WWW.
> Is there any plan to interface Java with Corba ?
>
I'm just a user like you, not a member of the SUN java team. So far a
number of us have asked about destributred objects . SUN hasn't replied yet...
(Any SUNnies out there like to answer this one? We're also waiting
for an answer to the persistance question...)
> Thanks in advance
>
>
Hope i helped some.
Jeff Kesselman
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