HotJava Views

HotJava Views was a productivity software suite developed by Sun Microsystems and implemented in Java. It was released in 1996 and was intended primarily for JavaStation or other JavaOS-based network computers.

HotJava Views consisted of four applications:

;MailView: IMAP4 e-mail client;CalendarView: Group scheduling;WebView: HotJava web browser;NameView: Directory services

The graphical user interface of HotJava Views was quite novel in that it dispensed with some of the common features of GUIs in order to simplify the interface. Menu bars and overlapping, resizable windows were eliminated and a simple "Selector" icon bar was used to switch between applications. Other third-party Java applications could be added to the Selector.

References

*cite web
url=http://www.byte.com/art/9707/sec5/art1.htm
title=Good-Bye, GUI....Hello, NUI
author=Tom R. Halfhill
year=1997
month=July
work=BYTE
accessdate=2008-10-09
*cite web
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_18807979
title=Sun Microsystems unveils HotJava Views
date=1996-10-29
work=Business Wire
accessdate=2008-10-09