Most of this book describes the fairly low-level APIs needed to write the kinds of programs discussed earlier. Some of these programs have already been written. Others are still only possibilities. Maybe you’ll be the first to write them! This chapter has just scratched the surface of what you can do when you make your Java programs network-aware. The real advantage of a Java-powered web site is that anything you can imagine is now possible. You’re going to come up with ideas others would never think of. For the first time you’re not limited by the capabilities that other companies build into their browsers. You can give your users both the data you want them to see and the code they need to see that data at the same time. If you can imagine it, you can code it.
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