Java is a new object-oriented programming language developed at Sun Microsystems to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice.
HotJava is a prototype of a dynamic, extensible World Wide Web browser that provides the unique feature of "executable content." HotJava brings interactivity to Web pages and showcases many of the capabilities of the Java language.
The primary goal of this alpha release is to demonstrate the concept of executable content, and to enable WWW software developers to use the Java language to create compelling Web pages.
Java and HotJava are available without a fee for non-commercial use (academic, research and internal business purposes). Commercial licensing terms will be announced in coming months.
We also maintain several Java and HotJava mailing lists for discussions and announcements about Java and HotJava.
The 1.0Alpha3 release contains many bug fixes and a few new features. New features include a "stop" button to stop fetching a page, an experimental new progress monitor, and support for the Gopher protocol. For a detailed list of changes in the release see Changes since the last release
As a compressed tar file, the Alpha3 release is just over 5.4 Meg. Uncompressed and unpacked it will take up about 16 Meg. Most of that space is taken up by on-line documentation which may also be found under http://java.sun.com/1.0alpha3/.
The simplest way to download the release is to click on this hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z link. This will automatically download a compressed tar file to your machine which you can unpack with the instructions below.
If you prefer you can also download the release via anonymous ftp from
sunsite.unc.edu (198.86.40.81) in pub/sun-info/hotjava/hj-alpha3.tar.Z
java.sun.com (198.70.96.253) in pub/hj-alpha3.tar.Z
$ ftp java.sun.com
Name (java.sun.com): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password: user@machine
<< informational messages <<
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> cd pub
<< more informational messages <<
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z
(5476079 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z remote: hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z
5476079 bytes received in 1e+02 seconds (43 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
zcat hotjava-alpha3-solaris2-sparc.tar.Z | tar xf -This will create a directory hotjava/. Don't forget to delete the compressed tar file once you have unpacked it.
You can start the HotJava browser two ways:
