A Perspective Change
This section discusses the additional evolution of today's deployment techniques. These topics are neither science fiction nor ready-to-use advice, but nevertheless are concepts worth reviewing.
Sun proposed the Sun One initiative at the beginning of 2001 as a counter-offensive to the competitor .NET platform from Microsoft. Of course, deployment of Java software can be seen as a Web service itself, and we will see in Chapter 2 how an abstract model can assist in this aspect. Of course, the net-centric perspective of the Java platform could be easily exploited when deploying software to remote clients. Only time will tell how deployment will fit into this new perspective, but the growing support for the JNLP protocol is promising. ...
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