In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read().

Sun Microsystems handed its Java technology to the the International Standards Organisation (ISO) last week. The ISO will decide in July whether Java should be a recognised, open industry standard ...

Even those aware that RTSJ 1.0 was important enough to be the very first standard to emerge in 2002 from the Java Community Process (JCP) as JSR-1 believed that nothing significant had happened since.