What is HotJava?
HotJava was a modular,
extensible World-Wide Web browser developed by Sun Microsystems
written entirely in Java programming language. Java is a simple,
object oriented, distributed, robust, interpreted,
architecture-neutral, secure, multithreaded, protable, dynamic and
general purpose programming language. Java language supports
programming for the Web/Internet in the form of architecture-neutral
and plateform-independent Java applets. HotJava was the first browser
that supports Java applets.
In the year of 1994, a
team of Java developers started a project, called WebRunner, which
was the copy of web browser Mosaic. Project was based on the Java
programming language. It was officially annouced as HotJava in May,
1995 at the SunWorld conference of Sun Microsystmes Inc.
HotJava had limited
functionality compaired to other browsers of its time.
After its development,
HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations of JVM
(Java Virtual Machine) that is processing speed and memory
consumption. Hence HotJava was very-very sluggish web browser.
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