Java Network Programming (3rd ed) [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.3 But Wait! There's More!

Java makes it possible to write
many kinds of applications that have been imagined for years, but
haven't been practical before. Many of these
applications would require too much processing power if they were
entirely server-based; Java moves the processing to the client, where
it belongs. Other application types require extreme portability and
some guarantee that the application can't do
anything hostile to its host. While Java's security
model has been criticized (and yes, some bugs have been found),
it's a quantum leap beyond anything that has been
attempted in the past and an absolute necessity for the mobile
software we will want to write in the future.

Most of this book describes the fairly low-level APIs needed to write
the kinds of programs discussed above. Some of these programs have
already been written. Others are still only possibilities. Maybe
you'll be the first to write them! This chapter has
just scratched the surface of what you can do when you make your Java
programs network aware. You're going to come up with
ideas others would never think of. For the first time,
you're not limited by the capabilities that other
companies build into their browsers. You can give your users both the
data you want them to see and the code they need to see that data at
the same time.