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<em>JavaWorld</em> Reader Survey

Time to give us your thoughts on browsers,<BR>platforms, Java, and Microsoft — and find out what your peers say!

How IBM’s January effect will impact its stock’s value

Without that "vision thing" going, can IBM deal with a Java-enabled future or is it merely buying time for its big iron past?

Visual J++ 1.0 runs into a little installation snag

Find out what's missing from the CD-ROM for Microsoft's visual Java development tool for Windows 95

News and New Product Briefs (1/5/97)

IBM’s AppletAuthor grinds JavaBeans

First JavaBeans-based authoring tool set provides point-and-click ease of use for enhancing Web pages

Write CGI programs in Java

Learn how to program the server side of your Web applications through Java

Building an Internet chat system

Multithreaded client/server chat — the Java way

Create your own supercomputer with Java

By combining Java with the Web's collection of computers, you too can have the processing power you crave — without buying a Cray

Schools teaching Java

Educators embrace Java

High marks in college signal long-term, real-world success of new programming language

Infospace announces new Java applications

WebSeQuel and WebCharts access and analyze <BR> corporate info for publishing on intranets

Internet World: Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, and more

At the recent event in New York, major players in the Java arena announce new products and initiatives

Java, Net revenues don’t yet match hype, IDC says

Will Java enjoy "tremendous" or "just modest" growth in near future?

Internet World: Microsoft, Sun dispute invitation to join pure Java

Of the 100-plus vendors supporting JavaSoft's "100% Pure Java" testing and certification program, Microsoft is conspicuously absent

How to develop commercial-quality Java programs

By exploring infoBook, a customizable, open Java app, this successful developer shows you how to build your own commercial product

Java jolts Jacob Javits: A high-caffeine tour

A look at the top Java-related news and events at Internet World

Real-world Java: Sun’s Java Computing Day highlights language’s ability to deliver business-critical apps

Learn what Autodesk and FTD are doing to move Java into the enterprise arena

Why JavaSoft already released another JDK 1.1 beta

Find out all the details on how beta 2 fixes some bugs, including a security-related glitch

Java undergoes purification ritual at Internet World

How Sun plans to guarantee Java's ubiquity through a branding initiative, plus highlights of the show's product announcements

<em>JavaWorld</em> News Briefs (12/15/96)

Keeping you abreast of the ever-changing Java world

<em>JavaWorld</em> News Briefs (11/15/96)

Keeping you abreast of the ever-changing Java world

Java undergoes purification ritual at Internet World

Major initiatives from Sun — including a '100% Pure Java' program — highlight opening-day activities at one of the global network community's largest gatherings

Comdex: Internet appliances to steal the show

The big show in Las Vegas will be crowded with NCs, PDAs, thin clients, and more

Comdex: Java’s money-making future uncertain

The creation of the Java Fund and testimony from companies like Marimba bode well for Java, but will smaller software companies profit from the technology?

The not-doing of Java: Zen and the art of US Robotics

Does this maker of mass-market modems and PDAs have a clue? You bet!

Book Review: <em>Instant Java</em> — Just add a browser?

Our reviewer puts <em>Instant Java</em> to the test

Java beyond the browser: The channel metaphor

Marimba's Castanet addresses several constraints of Java applets

Java APIs: Playing Monopoly with Java via the JECF

Online commerce takes new steps with the Java Electronic Commerce Framework

Emblaze offers realtime multimedia without FTP, plug-ins, or preloaded files

Geo's Emblaze compression and file-format applet promises streaming animation, audio, and video over standard 28.8-Kbps modems for Navigator and Internet Explorer

Comdex: Microsoft sees Windows as “the” Java platform

With its Visual J++ development environment and support for Java applets via its own virtual machine, Microsoft seeks to maintain OS dominance

Comdex: Lotus and IBM working on Java-based applications

Lotus Components for the Internet, a set of cross-platform applets, are due out next year

Sun and Novell team up on Java

Novell Directory Services (NDS) to be available to Java developers

Microsoft prepares Java Virtual Machine plug-in for Navigator

Protecting your applet’s intellectual property

Is that my apple(t) you've got behind your back?

Looking for lex and yacc for Java? You don’t know Jack

How to get and use Sun's free automatic Java parser generator — a unique new tool that's a must for Java compiler developers

Java brings new opportunity to network management

Network applications development will become easier and cheaper with Java

<em>JavaWorld</em> News Briefs (12/01/96)

Keeping you abreast of the ever-changing Java world

Creating download progress bars for applets

Here's a way to keep users happy while they wait for your applet to download

As a network computer war looms, Java is the key weapon in Sun’s arsenal

McNealy and Co. mean business with their new strategy for NC-based enterprise computing

Java for the masses

SunSoft announces a new tool for HTML authors and Web content providers, tools to increase Java speed and leverage existing enterprise applications, and enhancements to Java WorkShop

Logic and integer arithmetic

A look at the bytecodes of the Java virtual machine that perform logical and arithmetic operations

U.S. Postal Service accepts Java, starts e-postmark program

Java-based "smart forms" will calculate mailing costs,<BR> USPS to start electronic postmark service

Riddler.Com isn’t just playing around with Java

Web site's "joint-development" advertising model — using Java as its core technology — has users and marketers reading off of the same script

Automating Web exploration

Here's how to create a Web search engine service

ActiveX’s move looks spurious to industry watchers

Transfer of Microsoft's object messaging technology to The Open Group draws fire from open-platform advocates

Managing the networked world with Java

JMAPI provides universal framework for network management tools

Marimba Software “pushes” information over Internet

Using menus and menu bars in applets

How to use the AWT's built-in menu classes in applets

Mitsubishi plans to be a big NC player

Gates pushes NetPC

Microsoft tries to steal NC thunder with promise of a 'lite' Windows, sealed PC