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further reading: books on Java

general

nature: object oriented language

history: Created at Sun Microsystems for embedded devices.

Java should not be confused with Microsoft’s J++. Microsoft was worried about the success of Java for two reasons: (1) Java directly competed with Windows CE as a system for embedded devices, and (2) Java is cross-platform and therefore threatens the dominance of Windows. So, Microsoft created their own version of Java, which was purposely slightly different. In addition to adding a few Microsoft-only objects (available only when used on the latest versions of Windows) and dropping a few general Java objects, Microsoft purposely made some objects behave differently in their version than in pure Java. The prupose was to sew confusion and cause Java programs written on Microsoft platforms to fail on other platforms and Java programs written on other platforms to fail on Microsoft platforms, hoping this would lead to a widespread belief that Java was unreliable. For a period of time, Sun used the “Pure Java” slogan to try to distinguish between Microsoft’s version and the real thing. Eventually Sun won in court and and got a U.S> federal court order preventing Microsoft from calling their own language “Java”. Microsoft was forced to switch to an alternate name (“J++”).

structure

format: free form

further reading: books:

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Learn Java on the MacIntosh; by Barry Boone, Dave Mark; Addison-Wesley Pub Co; August 1996; ISBN 0201191571; paperback (with CD-ROM); 475 pages; $27.96

Beginning Java; by Ivor Horton; Wrox Press Inc; June 1997; ISBN 1861000278; paperback; 1039 pages; $32.00

Java for the Cobol Programmer (Advances in Object Technology, 22); by E. Reed Doke and Bill C. Hardgrave; Cambridge University Press; August 1999; ISBN 0521658926; Paperback; 360 pages; includes CD-ROM; $44.95

Java for Cobol Programmers; by John C. Byrne and John Byme; Charles River Media; February 2000; ISBN 1886801843; Paperback; 452 pages; includes CD-ROM; $49.95

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related software

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Metrowerks CodeWarrior Discover Programming for Mac 5.0; C, C++, Java, and Pascal; PowerMac; $49.95

Metrowerks CodeWarrior Discover Programming for Windows 5.0; C, C++, Java, and Pascal; Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT; $49.95

Compton’s Learning Programming Made Easy; The Learning Company; C, Java, TRUCK, and BASIC; Windows 95, Windows 98; $29.95

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