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by rramadass 1364 days ago
That wasn't it; There was nothing revolutionary about it. It was the most hyped/marketed language in History[1]. Sun threw ungodly amounts of money to market it and make it what it is today. Invented as a "Embedded Systems" language, pushed as a Browser "Applet" language, moved to "Server App" language and settled as a "Enterprise App" language.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/09/sun_preps_500m_java_b...
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enjoy-your-stay 1363 days ago
I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure.

Adding JDBC and later nio is probably what got it there the most.

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bb88 1363 days ago
Yes. It was originally meant to be used for interactive television. It then transitioned to the web and to cross platform GUI's. It then transitioned to servers.
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pjmlp 1363 days ago
And rewriting Distributed Objects Anywhere from OpenSTEP/Objective-C into Java EE.
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