ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at many of the components and technologies of Java, particularly those related to distributed objects and server-side technologies. The reality is that Java is all of the things listed. Java has been evolving since it first was introduced by Sun in 1995. Initially, Java was only a new language, albeit an exciting new language that garnered a lot of attention. It was designed for the Web, designed to be platform independent, and based on C++. Java is a single computer language that was developed at Sun Microsystems. As already noted, the Java language is based on C/C++. It is compiled into byte-codes that are either interpreted at runtime or just-in-time compiled and then run. During 1998 and 1999, Java continued to gain momentum both in terms of the number of active Java programmers and the number of commercially available Java products.
