December 6, 1996 - IBM has licensed Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to improve the way customers view and interact with Internet content. (For more information, see the complete press release.)
December 6, 1995 - Adobe Systems Inc. announced today it has signed an agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to broadly license Sun's Java programming language and integrate Java support into future versions of Adobe PageMill Web authoring software and Adobe Acrobat electronic document software. (For more information, see the complete press release.)
December 4, 1995 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the Java Cup International, a contest to promote the creation and public availability of small, platform-independent applications called Java "applets." Software developers will compete to develop the most innovative and creative applets. The Java Cup International contest begins immediately and ends March 31, 1996. Winners will be announced in May 1996. (For more information, visit http://javacontest.sun.com/.)
December 4, 1995 - Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced JavaScript(TM), an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on enterprise networks and the Internet. For more information, see the complete press release.)
December 4, 1995 - Sun, Silicon Graphics and Macromedia announce they have agreed to work together
on a new set of open multimedia formats and application programming
interfaces (APIs).
In addition, SGI announces it is licensing Java. (For more information, see the complete press release.)
December 4, 1995 - Sun, Silicon Graphics and Netscape announce mutual endorsement of technologies that will merge 3D, multimedia and interactivity on the World Wide Web, including Java, JavaScript and VRML. (For more information, see the complete press release.)
We're even getting noticed Down Under; Hot Java was voted Internet Product of the Year by Australian magazine "Publishing Essentials". Here's a quote.
Developers! Stop by Borland's Java developer's site to tell them what kind of tools you want, and register to receive on-going updates on development.
We're hiring! Check out our job listings.
Yes, there will be a Java Book Series. Due out this spring and published by Addison-Wesley.
The 1.0 Beta release of the Java Developers Kit is now available. This version supports SPARC Solaris, Windows NT, and Windows 95. See the Java Developers Kit page for full details and downloading instructions.
The full sources of the 1.0 Beta release of the Java Developers Kit is also available. The release includes sources for SPARC Solaris, Windows NT, and Windows 95. See the Java Developers Kit 1.0 Beta Source Release page for full details.
