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HotJava was a modular, extensible web browser

Web browser

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from Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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implemented in Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

. It was the first browser to support Java applet

Java applet

A Java applet is an applet delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets...

s, and was Sun's demonstration platform for the then new technology. It has since been discontinued and is now no longer supported. Furthermore, the Sun Download Center was taken down on July 31, 2011, and the download link on the official site points to a placeholder page saying so.

Origins

In 1994, a team of Java developers started writing WebRunner, which was a clone of the internet browser Mosaic. It was based on the Java

Java (programming language)

programming language. The name WebRunner was a tribute to the Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

movie.

WebRunner's first public demonstration was given by John Gage

John Gage

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and James Gosling

James Gosling

James A. Gosling, OC is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.-Education and career:In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary...

at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California

Monterey, California

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in 1995. Renamed HotJava, it was officially announced in May the same year at the SunWorld conference.

Usage

HotJava had somewhat limited functionality compared to other browsers of its time.

More critically, HotJava suffered from the performance limitations of Java virtual machine implementations of the day (both in speed and in memory consumption) and was consequently quite slow.

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