INTERACTIVE WEB SERVICES WITH JAVA

Java and WWW

Java is an ideal framework for server-side Web programming:

portability (well-defined semantics of language and standard libraries)
platform independence (bytecode interpretation)
secure runtime model (array bound checks, automatic garbage collection, bytecode verification, ...)
sandboxing security (SecurityManager)
dynamic loading (classloader)
data migration (serialization)
Unicode (as HTML and XML)
threads, concurrency control
network access (java.net.*)
cryptographic security (RSA, ...)
applets (on client-side) are also Java
...

(compare with Perl/C/VB CGI scripts!)