Tools, Products, and Packages


  • High quality integrated development environments (IDEs) are being shipped on a number of platforms. This includes smart editors, quality debuggers, and GUI builders

  • A number of new APIs are being worked on:
    • RMI -- remote method invocation
    • JDBC -- interaction with SQL databases
    • Electronic commerce
    • 2D and 3D media
    • Network Management API

  • Java Beans supplies component API to permit Applets to work with S/W component architectures, e.g., ActiveX, OpenDoc, etc.

* Editors Note : The JDK 1.1 has officially been released.