| HotJava | |
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 HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP | |
| Developer | Sun Microsystems[1] |
| Initial release | March 24, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-03-24)[1][2] |
| Final release | Late 2004; 22 years ago (2004)v3.0 |
| Written in | Java[1] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web browser |
| Website | www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-136232.html |
HotJava (later calledHotJava Browser to distinguish it fromHotJava Views) was a modular, extensibleweb browser fromSun Microsystems implemented inJava. It was the first browser to supportJava applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then-new technology.[3] It has since been discontinued and is no longer supported. Furthermore, the Sun Download Center was taken down on July 31, 2011, and the download link on the official site points to a placeholder page saying so.[4]
In 1994, a team of Oak/Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the web browserMosaic. It was based on theJava programming language. The name ‘WebRunner’ was a tribute to theBlade Runner movie.[5] The official Java name was adopted a year later in 1995 when Sun decided to make Oak public and integrate it with the web.
WebRunner's first public demonstration was given byJohn Gage andJames Gosling at theTechnology Entertainment Design Conference inMonterey, California in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference.
The parser code was reused by the standard Java libraries.[6]
HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.
More critically, HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations ofJava virtual machine implementations of the day (both in terms of processing speed and memory consumption) and hence was considerably sluggish.[7]
The default parser is the Hot Java parser
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