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| caption = HotJava 3.0 under Windows XP.

| developer = [[Sun Microsystems]]<ref name="nwfusion" />

| 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'' |accessdate=August 16, 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011005005015/http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html |archivedate=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|accessdate=June 10, 2014}}</ref>

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

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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''|accessdate=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|url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sdlc-decommission-333274.html|publisher=''Oracle Corporation''|accessdate=August 29, 2011}}</ref>

==Origins==

In 1994, a team of Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the internet 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]]''|accessdate=November 24, 2010|year=1998}}</ref>

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.