Re: [cobalt-users] Java Virtual Machine

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Mike Fritsch wrote:

> I have had people ask about it and I thought it was clients side , but I am
> now thinking it is server side software. When I looked it up in yahoo I
> found a book by OReily. Anyone know?

Well, it's both, netscape's web server seems to have started it by
providing a Java engine to allow cgi scripts written in java to run on the
server , ie cgi's , but it's kinda a slow way to do it, you get machine
independence , buy you pay dearly in speed, perl makes a lot more sense
for this kinda thing... ;)

People asking may be finding cgi applets that need it, things like
parachat need it to run on the server as they are written in java...

> > > Does anyone know what Java Virtual Machine  is? If so do many people use
> it?
> >
> > Well, it's a virtual machine that runs Java bytecode. And yes, many
> > people use it.