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[[Image:MainPage-HotJava3-Optim.png|right|thumb|300px|HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP.]]

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'''HotJava''' is a modular, extensible [[web browser]] from [[Sun Microsystems]] that can execute [[Java applet]]s. It was the first browser to support Java applets, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology. It has since been discontinued and is now no longer supported.

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| 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>

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'''HotJava''' (later called '''HotJava Browser''' to distinguish it from [[HotJava Views]]) was a modular, extensible [[web browser]] from [[Sun Microsystems]] implemented in [[Java (programming language)|Java]]. It was the first browser to support [[Java applet]]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 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 internetweb browser [[Mosaic_browserMosaic browser|Mosaic]]. It was based on the [[Java_%28programming_language%29Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language. The name WebRunner‘WebRunner’ was a tribute to the ''[[Blade_Runner|''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 movie24, 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.

[[Image:WebRunner_Flyer.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Flyer advirtising WebRunner.]]

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>

[[Image:JavaHomepage_in_HotJava1.0.gif|right|thumb|300px|First Java homepage running inside HotJava Alpha2.]]

==Usage==

==Internet Revolution==

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

In 1995, [[John Gage]] and 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.

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}}

*[[List of web browsers]]

* [[Comparison of web browsers]]

* [[List of web browsers]]

* [[Mozilla Grendel]]

==References==

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==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://javawww.sunuseit.com/featuresalertbox/1998/05/birthday9506.html JAVAHistory has TECHNOLOGY:a THELesson EARLYfor YEARSHotJava]

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

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