Mosaic and Netscape showed us how to deliver words and pictures to anyone in the world, customers, sponsors, students, and future generations. Netscape with Java has begun dispensing safe programs. Many of us have seismic products and research that we want to deliver:
SEP has considerable experience preparing reproducible research on CD-ROM. Textbooks and research reports are delivered in a form that allows recipient sponsors and students to rebuild a large category of illustrations from the underlying programs and data.
Java is a Sun Microsystems product that combined with Netscape
delivers executable content on the recipient's machine.
An SEP pilot Java project
is nearly ready
to deliver these software products on beta Netscape 2.0
now running on SGI, IBM, HP, PC, and Sun machines.
SEP's pilot Java project contains