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I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure.

I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure. Adding JDBC and later nio is probably what got it there the most.

bb88 4y ago
Yes. It was originally meant to be used for interactive television. It then transitioned to the web and to cross platform GUI's. It then transitioned to servers.
pjmlp 4y ago
And rewriting Distributed Objects Anywhere from OpenSTEP/Objective-C into Java EE.