Java-related development is going on all around the world, but the concentration of activity is much higher in the U.S. than elsewhere. We may only have a head start of two to three years, but that should be enough to capture a great deal of the market share before the software industries of Western Europe, Asia, and the developing nations begin making serious efforts to catch up. When the user clicks on the appropriate part of the HTML page to retrieve it from a Web server, the applet is downloaded into the client workstation environment, where it begins executing. Java's origins go back to 1991, when Sun Microsystems began looking for ways to create platform-independent code to support consumer electronic products. The Sun project team then built a Web browser, originally called WebRunner and then renamed HotJava, in the Java programming language.
Users access a Web page and pull it down to their client.
The key to Java, as used on the Web, is the notion of executable content, rather than static content. Links from this site take you to a variety of places for demos, release information, documentation, etc. Texas Instruments' World Wide Web page for information about the Internet capabilities of its new Composer-3 application development tool. ParcPlace, Digitalk's World Wide Web page for information about VisualWave. References Books December, John.