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{{for|the productivity software suite|HotJava Views}}

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| captionlogo = HotJava 3.0 under Windows= XP.

| developer screenshot = [[Sun Microsystems]]MainPage-HotJava3-Optim.png

| releasedcaption = HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP

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| latest release version = 3.0

| released = {{Start date and age|1997|03|24}}<ref name="nwfusion">{{cite web|last=Rakitin |first=Jason |title=Review: Alternative Web browsers |url=http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html |publisher=Network World Fusion |access-date=August 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011005005015/http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html |archive-date=October 5, 2001 |date=October 27, 1997 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sun+Microsystems%2c+Inc.+to+Ship+HotJava+Browser+1.0%3b+New+Customizable...-a019198262|title=Sun Microsystems, Inc. to Ship HotJava Browser 1.0; New Customizable Browser Enables Custom Web Interface|publisher=Business Wire|date=March 11, 1997|access-date=June 10, 2014|archive-date=July 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728050819/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sun+Microsystems%2c+Inc.+to+Ship+HotJava+Browser+1.0%3b+New+Customizable...-a019198262|url-status=dead}}</ref>

| latest release version = Late {{Start date and age|2004}} <small>''v3.0''</small>

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| language = English

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| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20171112150428/http://javawww.sunoracle.com/productstechnetwork/archivejava/hotjavaindex-136232.html www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-136232.html]

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'''HotJava''' is(later called '''HotJava Browser''' to distinguish it from [[HotJava Views]]) was a modular, extensible [[web browser]] from [[Sun Microsystems]] thatimplemented can executein [[Java applet(programming language)|Java]]s. It was the first browser to support [[Java appletsapplet]]s, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then -new technology.<ref>{{cite web|last=Watson|first=Dave|title=A Quick Look at HotJava|url=http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/hotjava.html|publisher=The Southern California OS/2 User Group|access-date=August 16, 2010|date=July 21, 2001}}</ref> It has since been discontinued and is now no longer supported. Furthermore, the Sun Download Center was taken down on July 31, 2011, and the download link on the official site points to a placeholder page saying so.<ref>{{cite web | title=Sun Download Center Decommission | website=oracle.com | url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806075314/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html | archive-date=2011-08-06 | url-status=dead | access-date=2011-10-29 }}</ref>

==Origins==

In 1994, a team of Oak/Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the web browser [[Mosaic browser|Mosaic]]. It was based on the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language. The name ‘WebRunner’ was a tribute to the ''[[Blade Runner]]'' movie.<ref>{{cite web|last=Byous|first=Jon|title=Java Technology: An Early History|url=http://gcc.upb.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/7544f3043ee53927c12573e70058bbb6/abf8d70f07c12eb3c1256de900638899/$FILE/Java%20Technology%20-%20An%20early%20history.pdf|publisher=[[Sun Microsystems]]|access-date=November 24, 2010|year=1998}}</ref> The official Java name was adopted a year later in 1995 when Sun decided to make Oak public and integrate it with the web.

WebRunner's first public demonstration was given by [[John Gage]] and [[James Gosling]] at the [[Technology Entertainment Design]] Conference in [[Monterey, California]] in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference.

The parser code was reused by the standard Java libraries.<ref>{{cite web | title=HTMLEditorKit (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2) | website=docs.oracle.com | url=http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109001722/http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html | archive-date=2012-01-09 | url-status=dead | quote=The default parser is the Hot Java parser | access-date=2012-12-31 }}</ref>

==Internet Revolution==

In 1995, [[John Gage]] and [[James Gosling]] took a few desktop workstations to the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Monterey, California. They were announcing WebRunner to the public. The conference was rather dull, since no one was excited about a Mosaic clone. Then Gosling moved the mouse over a picture of a 3D molecule. The molecule rotated with the mouse movement. Suddenly the room gasped, fascinated that now the internet was interactive. Next, Gosling and Gage pushed the audience over the edge with an animated line-sorting algorithm that Gosling had written.

==Usage==

HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.

More critically, HotJava suffered from the inherent performance limitations of [[Java virtual machine]] implementations of the day (both in terms of processing speed and memory consumption) and hence was considerably sluggish.<ref>{{cite book | last=Killelea | first=Patrick | title=Web Performance Tuning: Speeding Up the Web | publisher=O'Reilly Media, Incorporated | series=O'Reilly Series | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-596-00172-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sX60mAi0eQUC&pg=PA378 | edition=2nd | page=378}}</ref>

==See also==

{{Portal|Computer programming}}

* [[Comparison of web browsers]]

* [[List of web browsers]]

* [[Mozilla Grendel]]

==References==

*[[Comparison of web browsers]]

{{reflist}}

*[[List of web browsers]]

*[[Lobo (Browser)|Lobo Web Browser]]

==External links==

*[{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990202161640/http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/ |date=February 2, 1999 |title=HotJava Browser] }}

*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961225173659/http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/pub/sun-info/hotjava/ |date=December 25, 1996 |title=HotJava 1.0 alpha2; first public release }}

*[httphttps://browsers.evolt.org/?hotjavabrowsers/archive/hotjava HotJava @ Evolt]

*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961104090931/http://www.euroyellowpages.com/exhibitn/javhwhat.html |date=November 4, 1996 |title=What is HotJava? }}

==Resources==

*[http://java.sun.com/features/1998/05/birthday.html JAVA TECHNOLOGY: THE EARLY YEARS]

==External Links==

*[http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1997-03/sunflash.970311.11725.xml SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. TO SHIP HOTJAVA BROWSER 1.0]

*[http://www.euroyellowpages.com/exhibitn/javhwhat.html WHAT IS HOTJAVA ? ]

*[http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9506.html History has a Lesson for HotJava]

*[http://ei.cs.vt.edu/book/chap1/java_hist.html History of Java]

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