Chapter 13. Other Platforms and Future Directions

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the first edition of this book, we concluded by describing industry trends that were both changing and advancing the application of Java technology. Today, Java technology, in one form or another, is woven into just about every conceivable device. No longer relegated to the desktop or the browser, Java technology is wired into smart cards, cell phones, pagers, digital communicators, personal digital assistants, set-top boxes, game consoles, desktop computers, network appliances, routers, switches, blade servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. We described a trend ...

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