In the course of just one year, Ken Russell and a handful of his colleagues in the Sun software group reimagined and redesigned the Java plug-in -- the code that goes into Web browsers so they can launch and run Java applications. They made it smaller, faster, more reliable -- and they taught it to do new tricks. "There are some rough edges in the new system," Russell says, "but in terms of achieving a goal that isn't possible with any other Web technology at the moment, I think we did pretty well." Softare CTO Bob Brewin is less circumspect. He says the new Java plug-in stands to "revolutionize the concept of deployment of applications via the Web."
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