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Since childhood Java has meant a lot of things to me, at first having been brought up on an endless supply of Luis L'amour western paper backs Java was the cup of brew over which cowboys swapped trail lore in the wild wild west, throwing the dredges of Java into the camp fire was the ultimate symbol of machismo. Then one graduated to the edge of the seat thrillers by Alistair McLean and java was part of the title of one of his unputdownable chiller "South by Java Head", in the World War classics Java was part of the exotic South East consisting of Java and Sumatra. "Java" was also the way one was asked to leave in the Marathi language. So having come to grips with so many uses of the word "Java" when "Oak" was rechristianed as Java one was pleasantly reminded of the associations of the past with this one word having so many memories attached to it.

That Java was first considered to be the language which would enable all the smart house hold machines to talk across platforms, this was the strong point of Java it's cross platform capabilities or rather platform independent character. This very ability took this offspring of C and C++ away from its intended use to service the Internet explosion. This was the golden age of Java working across networks and platforms. Java thus was the language of the kitchen cabinet, which became the lingua franca of the World Wide Web.

Java has been a boon for the software engineers who having learned it on the Windows NT environment here are able to work in the US environment, which is predominantly Unix, based since Java was the same on both the platforms. The InfoTech related boom experienced by India is largely thankful to the versatility of Java.

If somebody talked to me about Java beans I would conjure up the image of shinny rounded rich dark brown coffee beans and their rich aroma would fill the room, similar to the aromas wafting from South Indian kitchens as freshly ground beans of Java were brewed into the famous decoction of the Madras Coffee every day at breakfast time. Who would know that Java beans would be far more recognizable as software plug ins.

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