ISBN: 1-56592-418-5, 336 pages
When Sun Microsystems released the first alpha version of Java™ in the winter of 1995, developers all
over the world took notice. There were many features of Java that attracted these developers, not the
least of which were the set of buzzwords Sun used to promote Java: Java was, among other things,
robust, safe, architecture-neutral, portable, object oriented, simple, and multithreaded. For many
developers, these last two buzzwords seemed contradictory: how could a language that is multithreaded
be simple?
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