[thelist] Wireless Development and eCommerce Tools

on 12/01/1999 7:22 PM, Meredith Tupper at meredith@pintsize.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin and all,
> 
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask a really silly question: where can
> I find examples of Java's usefulness on the web?  I mean, I have seen a couple
> of sites like Groupboard (http://www.groupboard.com) that make good use of
> java, but
> other than that, all it does is crash my browser.  Oh, and I've used
> StarOffice, which I think is written in Java.  I know there are probably many
> excellent examples of Java used in proprietary situations, but is there
> anything out there that
> the general public can see to understand its potential?
> 
> Just wondering,
> Meredith

Hi Meredith -

It's important to make the distinction between server side Java (ESB's,
servlets, etc.) and client side Java (applets).
The Java one sees browsing the net is normally client side.  There is a ton
of stuff that can go on behind the scenes though.

Java can be used to access databases (JDBC).

Java can provide dynamic content (Java Server Pages, Servlets)

Java can replace cgi's and all of that shell scripting that the web grew up
on - and you don't have to worry about the platform you are going to run it
on.  

I'll have a very easy time moving all of the JSP stuff I'm starting to play
with from my development machine (a Macintosh) to the Sun Server it will
live on when it's ready to be shown to the world.  This is not the case with
other compiled languages, and may not be the case with interpreted
languages.

Here area few good resources for Java as it relates to internet
technologies:

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html

http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/

http://www.servlets.com

I've been looking into this a lot recently, so it just happens to be on the
brain. It's all fascinating - and luckily I have some very good Java
resources available to me.

I hope this helps.


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bob davis
bobd@members.evolt.org