On to the 21st Century

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Java will enable global business processes via Internet technology, and will replace centralized mainframe systems and client-server networks with powerful heterogeneous distributed peer-to-peer systems.

Commercial and technical demands will ensure that open technologies survive and prosper.

It combines all the important aspects of object oriented programming including inheritance, interface specification, exception handling and so on, with a simple and well know syntax based on the C language.

It is ideally suited to distributed applications via RMI and/or CORBA object request brokers.

It supports reuse of code through classes, packages and Java beans, and represents a realistic way to move from line level programming to the component level.

There are many Java packages such as JDBC for database access, AWT for user interfaces, JECF for electronic commerce, etc.

It is non-proprietary so represents a real opportunity for industry co-operation, which is already proving to be true.

It is the only environment that satisfies the demands of managers and developers, so is likely to gain rapid technical and commercial acceptance.

Java may well become the COBOL of the 21st century.