HotJava Views was a

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developed by Sun Microsystems and implemented in

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. It was released in 1996 and was intended primarily for JavaStation or other

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s. HotJava Views consisted of four applications: ;MailView:

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;CalendarView: Group scheduling ;WebView: HotJava

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;NameView: Directory services The

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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

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. Other third-party Java applications could be added to the Selector.

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