Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Duke, the Java

Duke, the Java mascot
The Java platform and Java started as an internal project at Sun Microsystems in December 1990. Patrick Naughton, an engineer with Sun, I was disappointed with the state of C and C APIs and tools. While believed to migrate to NeXT, Naughton received the offer of work on a new technology, and thus began the Stealth.
The Stealth Project was renamed the Green Project (or Project Green) where James Gosling and Mike Sheridan joined Naughton. With the help of other engineers, began work in a small office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. Attempting to develop a new technology for programming next generation smart devices, the Sun looked to exploit a new field.
The team at first thought to use C, but was out for several reasons. When developing an embedded system with limited resources, C is not suitable for higher power also require that their complexity leads to errors of development. The absence of a garbage collector (garbage collector) requiring programmers to manually manage system memory, a dangerous and prone to failure. The team also was troubled by the lack of portable tools on security, distributed programming and concurrent programming. Finally called for a platform that is easily portable to any type of device.
Bill Joy had devised a new language that combines the best of Mesa and C. In a letter entitled Further (farthest), Sun proposed that its engineers created an environment based on object-oriented C. Initially Gosling attempted to modify and extend C, what I call a C - but soon the idea to create a completely new language, which called Oak, in reference to the oak that was near his office.
The team spent long hours and in the summer of 1992 had listed some parts of the platform, including the Green OS, the Oak language, the libraries and hardware. The first test, conducted on September 3, 1992, focused on building a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant or Personal Digital Assistant) called Star7 , with a graphical interface and an assistant nicknamed "Duke" to guide andalusia user.
In November of that year, Project Green became FirstPerson, Inc., a division owned by Sun Microsystems, and the team moved to Palo Alto (California). Then the focus is on building interactive devices, which Time Warner to request a public offering for a television adapter. That is, a device that is located between the television and a source of external signals and adapting the contents of this (video, audio, web pages, etc..) For viewing on the screen. So Firsperson change your mind and send a proposal to Warner for the device they wanted. However, the cable industry believe that the proposal gave too much control to the user, thus FirstPerson lost his bid for SGI (Silicon Graphics Incorporated). A deal with 3DO Company for the same type of device does not come to fruition. Seeing that there were not many opportunities in the television industry, the company returned to the heart of Sun.

IT World
Santa Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems Corp announced the availability of the JavaFX Mobile platform for developing and delivering Rich Internet Applications (RIAS) over a wide range mobile devices, in an attempt to "ecosystem" of applications that meet the diverse needs of consumers, said an executive.
ZDNet UK
The technical support staff will help Taiwanese hardware makers, Google's operating system on mobile phones
Broadcast Newsroom
Tru2way technology, including hardware, content / applications and test equipment will play an important role in this year CableNET at The Cable Show'09 1-3 April in Washington, DC Tru2way is the brand name for interactive digital cable services through the cable video network.
Business Week


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Java Programming Language for Non-programmers/student Guide by Sun Microsystems (Spiral-bound - 2000) The Java Programming Language SL-275 Student Workbook by Sun Educational Services (Spiral-bound - 2000) Introduction to Java Programming with Sun ONE Studio 4 by Y. Daniel Liang (Paperback - Sep 3, 2002)

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