The purpose of this Java Exhibition is to demonstrate a few of the
innovative ways that Java applets can enhance static web pages with
animation, interactivity and dynamics. After the above applet loads and runs
on your system, the scrolling text will instruct you when and
how you can link to the remaining parts of this exhibition, or click
HERE to go to Part Two directly.
If you have heard the hype about Java, but are not sure what it is,
what it looks like, what it does and how it acts, this page is for you.
John Dvorak, the respected senior contributing editor of
PC Magazine,
recently wrote:
Nevertheless, Java is in fact a cool way to jazz up a home page with
special effects. This is what I hope to demonstrate here.
If you see a message at the top of this page about needing to use a
"Java-enabled browser" then you will not be able to enjoy the exciting and
fascinating applets here.
Java-enabled browsers include 32-bit versions of Netscape 2.x or 3.0 and Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.0. You probably will also need a powerful state-of-the-art
computer with fast, full graphics and multimedia capabilities so that the
applets run at the programmer's intended speed and smoothness. Note that Java
applets will not run using Windows 3.1.
Java Links:
Yes, Java will be used for dinky mini-apps (writer/programmer Rob Hummel
calls them "craplets") and as a way to add animation to stagnant Web
pages, but not much more.
Dvorak's article,
Java: A Born Loser, points out the vast
limitations and dangers of considering Java's internet implementation to be
the revolutionary breakthrough that Sun Microsystems makes it out to be.
15 PC Magazine #12, p87 (6/25/96)
Stephen Le Hunte, author of
HTML Reference Library, succinctly
defines Java as:
Home of Sun's Java Programming Language.
An extensive collection of categorized & rated Java applets.
An excellent categorized subject outline of links to Java sites.
The really cool scrolling sign on this page by Darrick Brown.
Home of the versatile CrazyText applet by Patrick Taylor.
Collection of rated Java applets.
Another well organized collection of Java applets.
From Sun Microsystems comes Java, the platform independent programming language
for creating executable content within web pages. Based on C++, this is not a
language to be taken lightly, but when mastered, could prove as limitless as the
authors imagination. Indeed, some have even gone so far as to predict that the
computer software industry is seriously under threat, because in a few years, all
applications will be in the form of applets, downloaded as and when they are required.