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Traditional and Java run-time systems compared

Traditional and Java run-time systems compared

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Various distributed object technologies have traditionally been seen as necessary to protect us from the uncertainties of a world where there is a perpetual state of partial failure. The WorldWide Web is the second largest distributed system in the world, behind only the telephone network which has far simpler ambitions. This paper discusses variou...

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... with Microsoft ® 's ActiveX ™ above, it is unclear what the term "Java" is being used to encompass in this context. The Java run-time system is shown in Figure 3 alongside a traditional run-time system (the object code blob). The bytecode specification is designed to have safety features for network download into a virtual machine (although it can be loaded from disk, of course). ...