Looking at Java
Featuring the Haskell hackers:
- John Peterson: An overview of the Java project and language
- Sandra Loosemore: The Java libraries
- Alastair Reid: The Java machine
Java is a new language developed by Sun which is rapidly catching on
in the CS community. Java is a cleaned-up C / C++ with some
interesting libraries. It is designed with the web in mind: pieces
of Java code (applets) can be downloaded and executed as part of a web
browser (Hot Java, Mosaic), allowing a much more dynamic interface to
the web. Java is designed to be secure - running arbitrary downloaded
code should not compromise the security of the host.