Java applications

[Thomas Dowling]

Since we've counted up to the Alta Vista topic map, a telnet app, a
backgammon game, and not too much else, I thought I'd throw out a W4L quiz.
 Our esteemed listowner, Roy Tennant, once posted "I have seen the future
of the Web...and it's [sic :-)  -- the archive remembers all our typos]
name is Java.  Was that post made in A) November 1995, B) May 1996, C)
November 1996, or D) March 1996?

This is not a comment on Roy's prognosticative skills, but rather a
reminder about technological bandwagons.  With Sun getting chintzy about
the ISO standardization process, and with Microsoft trying to graft Windows
hooks onto platform-independent Java, this could still be a "Whatever
happened to...?" technology a couple years from now.

FWIW, Ovid has been developing a Java client for their databases.  They've
been showing it off a conferences for the past six months and I assume
they'll have it at ALA.  They've mentioned a fall delivery, but no specific
dates.  Perhaps it will arrive for the second anniversary of Roy's post.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu