Rethinking the Java GUI
by Volker Weber
Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. "When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet," he jokes. His point: Java was miscast as a mobile and portable GUI. Its real mission in life was to become a platform for network services.
[Simon Phipps used to be IBM's Java Evangelist before he went to work for Sun]
