August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 51m
English
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Java as a Tool for Enterprise Development
Java is really the only language in widespread use that can easily be used to build systems that meet the requirements I just listed for an enterprise system. Java is a standards-based language that is platform-independent. It has support for accessibility and internationalization and localization, including a Unicode basic character type, built into the language. Finally, Java is an object-oriented language with database access and distributed computing at its core.
The Java APIs and Platform Independence
One important test of whether a component of your enterprise system is proprietary is whether or not another vendor could, in principal, provide a black-box implementation of that component. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM), for example, is an open specification for which others can—and some do—write independent implementations. Java’s suitability for this requirement, however, goes beyond the fact that it is a standardized language that is platform-independent. It also provides a host of APIs that you are guaranteed to find on any JVM for accessing hardware and software resources traditionally blocked by expensive, proprietary interfaces. For its original release, the Java specification prescribed what Sun termed the Java Core API—the basic objects required for a minimally viable language. The Java platform specification has since grown to encompass many other APIs. The following is an abridged list of some of the Java APIs:
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