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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 decommissionDecommission | website=oracle.com | url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html |publisher archive-url=Oraclehttp://web.archive.org/web/20110806075314/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html Corporation|access archive-date=August2011-08-06 29,| 2011url-status=unfit}}</ref>

==Origins==

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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 HTMLEditorKit API documentation for Java| archive-url=http://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=unfit "''|quote=The default parser is the Hot Java parser''".}}</ref>

==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&q=hotjava+browser+performance+slow&pg=PA378|author=Killelea, Patrick|title=Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition|publisheredition=O'Reilly2nd Books|date=2002|isbn page=9780596001728378}}</ref>

==See also==