Michael Zarrabian

As far back as the first time two computers were physically linked to one another, the idea of sharing information between, and executing programs on, networked computers has been around. Distributed computer architecture challenged software manufacturers to provide operating systems, communication protocols, computer languages and operating environments in which the distributed nature of the underlying architecture was substantially transparent to developers and users. Now, the Internet generally, and the World Wide Web ("WWW") specifically, have challenged the software manufacturers to again provide such a transparent operating environment for the Internet. Currently, users access information stored on the WWW using browsers. The Java programming language and Java applets allow development of platform-independent application programs executing over the Internet a... (more)