Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

When Java debuted in 1995, the focus was on applets — mini-applications, typically with a graphical user interface (GUI), that ran inside Web browsers. Developers who had worked with GUI systems, ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...