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JavaOne: Java industry comes into its own

Vendors show off numerous Java-based products

By Elinor Mills & Kristi Essick, IDG News Service

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June  1996
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San Francisco -- One year after Sun Microsystems launched its Java object-oriented programming language, Java has spawned a new industry that came into its at the first JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco in late May.

Bigger than the Microsoft Developer Conference, according to one organizer, JavaOne lured 6,000 attendees and 168 exhibitors for its three-day schedule of announcements, speeches, and sessions.

And companies are lining up to license Java and the new JavaOS for everything from PCs and World Wide Web applications, to Internet appliances and intranet applications, both of which are concepts that were born in the past year.

James Gosling, senior fellow at JavaSoft, Sun's subsidiary, gave a state-of-the-technology address during his opening keynote, saying Java isn't just for Web development anymore. Java can be used for "doing more than just applets," he said. With "the actual base technology itself, you can do just about anything," he said.

A score of announcements gives an indication of the intensity of interest in Java, including ones related to electronic commerce.

--Elinor Mills & Kristi Essick, IDG News Service


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