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To: Starlight who wrote (7426)	6/9/2000 12:25:00 PM
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Java's cup runneth over Good article on Java @ InfoWorld... [TEXT DELETED] In his keynote address here Tuesday to kick off the start of the fifth JavaOne conference, Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy was joined on stage by two special guests: Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Shoichiro Irimajiri, vice chairman of Sega Enterprises. [SNIP] At several points during his keynote address, McNealy mentioned the necessity for Java to be used more in the games and general entertainment market. "I'd like to see a JSR [Java specification request] for games; the Java API is in the early stages," he said. A JSR is the first step in creating or altering a Java technology specification. Sega's Irimajiri said that his company had experienced problems with Java in the past. "We tried to deploy Java and had some difficulty," he said. Today, Irimajiri announced that Sega's Dreamcast console will be running Java. In September, in version 3 of Dreamcast, Sega will release a Web browser, which is currently under development by PlanetWeb. The browser uses Sun's Personal Java, which will facilitate the playing of multiplayer games, Irimajiri added. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED] FULL TEXT @ infoworld.com