Open Standards Beyond Java: On the Future of Mobile Code for the Internet

Michael Franz, University of California at Irvine

9/26/2008
(Original Publish Date: 1/31/2000)

At first sight, Java's position as the de-facto standard for portable software distributed across the Internet seems virtually unassailable. Interestingly enough, however, it is surprisingly simple to provide alternatives to the Java platform, using the plug-in mechanism supported by the major commercial World Wide Web browsers.