5. Solution: use Java to build local real-time processing capabilities

• Java is a net-aware web programming language developed by SUN Microsystems http://java.sun.com/

• Java runs locally both within java-capable web browsers and as a stand-alone applications

• Java is an interpreter (i.e. it is slow...) but soon will be as fast as compiled C language programs as ``just-in-time compilers'' appear in web browsers

• However, Java is fast enough currently to do flickering and some limited image processing operations

• Java's modification of the web client-server paradigm:

     user's Web browser <------ Internet ------> Web server 
  
      Steps:  1. Request for Java Applet    ===>
              2. Java Applet returned      <===
              3. Java Applet started
                 on user's Web browser
              4. Applet requests data       ===>
              5. Data returned from server <===
              6. Data processed locally 
  

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