title: Java and its future in biomedical computing.
abstract: Java, a new object-oriented computing language related to C++, is receiving considerable attention due to its use in creating network-sharable, platform-independent software modules (known as "applets") that can be used with the World Wide Web. The Web has rapidly become the most commonly used information-retrieval tool associated with the global computer network known as the Internet, and Java has the potential to further accelerate the Web's application to medical problems. Java's potentially wide acceptance due to its Web association and its own technical merits also suggests that it may become a popular language for non-Web-based, object-oriented computing.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Branch, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Rodgers
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008490:Medical Informatics; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards