Allan Hess

In an earlier (JDJ, Vol. 2, Issue 2) column from the JDJ Editorial Board, Arthur van Hoff of Marimba made the following observation, "It turns out that any piece of [Java] code, if it wants to do something interesting, quickly becomes too large to download as an applet." Arthur then goes on to discuss, among other things, Marimba's elegant solution to this challenge, Castanet. Taking this observation as a jumping off point for this month's column from the Editorial Board, I would like to offer the following opinion: Java doesn't need the Internet. The 'Net was instrumental in introducing many of us to the wonders of Java. Dancing toasters and live news tickers captivated us. And Java is much more suitable for the Internet than other component technologies because its very late binding means that programs can be highly granular and thus more easily flow across a slow... (more)