JAVA - THE RISING SUN

In the middle of 1996, the Java Language made its first appearance on the Internet. Since then, it has become so popular that the big-league Browsers are scrambling fast to support its latest releases. Today if you surf on the Net, you will find very few sites which do not dabble in Java. All this popularity has done nothing but good for Java. It is a great programming language, but few people today think of it in terms of anything more than a Web graphic turbo-charger.

If you are an avid Net surfer you already know that there are a large number of Operating Systems out there. Chances are your computer boots to Windows 3.1 or Windows95, but a lot of people use operating systems like UNIX and OS/2. If you are downloading a shareware application for your machine, you must be careful to get the version for your operating system. For example, the UNIX version of Netscape will not run on Windows 95.

Looking for the right version can be quite a bother, and it is natural to wish away the proliferation of operating systems, or to at least ask for a way that the same program can work any where. This was a sentiment echoed by the community of program writers before the advent of Java. Today we have a programming language which satisfies the requirements of these program writers. Java is that programming language which is platform independent. You do not require a special operating system to execute a Java program. Hence today, before speaking authoritatively on the subject of Internet, it is imperative to learn the intricacies of this hotbed of developers activity.

We started out on this project to learn this fascinating language and tried to find out its influence on the Internet. We found that though this programming language is easy to look at after it has been put together in the form of a program, it is not as simple as it seems. It took us some time to start off with our project - We were given plenty of encouragement from our seniors. We finally succeeded in our endeavour to create a Browser using this platform independent language.

We were able to learn plenty about this language from our project. Experience, my friends, is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you a test first and the lesson afterwards. While working on this project, this is exactly what we found out. If you are also interested enough to learn something of this language, join the bandwagon. Click on the links below and get started.

Before going any further, we request you to read our overview section so as to be ready for what awaits you in the actual program.

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