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SUN'S JAVA BACKED BY MICROSOFT AND IBM
Network Briefing , Number: 204 , Page: N/A , Dec 22 1995

Although largely unproven as a commercial technology, Sun Microsystems Inc's Java has seen its bandwagon building momentum, with both Microsoft Corp and IBM Corp hitching their Internet ponies to the programming language, stamping it as a de facto standard.

Microsoft will write a Java applications programming interface to be implemented as an Object Linking & Embedding control that becomes part of an Internet scripting language built on Visual Basic and called Visual Basic Script. The Java application programming interface and run-time environment for Windows will be turned over to Sun. The run-time environment will enable Java applets to be run under all versions of Windows. Developers will be able to write Internet applications with Java and Microsoft tools and have them interoperate. Java applets can be inserted in applications written in Visual Basic Script.

Web designers will be able to write pages using the Sun-Netscape Communications Corp JavaScript (issue 203) and be sure of compatibilitywith Microsoft's new Internet Information Server, formerly Gibraltar, and Internet Explorer Browser. Windows source licensees Bristol Technology Inc and Mainsoft Corp will do versions of Visual Basic Script for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Digital Unix.

Meantime, IBM Corp has duly licensed Sun Microsystems Inc's Java programming language, as rumoured earlier this month (issue 202), and says it intends to use it to enhance the way customers view and interact with content on the World Wide Web. It will implement Java in Web browsers and servers and Lotus Notes, and support it under OS/2 and AIX, as well as Windows 3.1, making those versions available over the Web.

* Adobe Systems Inc has also licensed Java, and will integrate Java support into its PageMill Web authoring software and Acrobat document software.

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