Father of Java proud of code in healthcare
Father of Java proud of code in healthcare
Feb 02, 2005: The man who designed the original programming language of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine at Sun Microsystems in 1991 spoke this week about how proud he is of the extent that the code is now used around the world.
In particular, he is extremely pleased with its use in hospitals. He spoke in glowing terms of the way in which Brazil has managed to incorporate the use of Java with IT services to help doctors and medical staff deal with patients in hospitals all over the country.
The hospitals have embraced technology to join disparate databases and provide up-to-date information on each patient at their bedsides through the use of PC, laptop, tablet and handheld technology, which use Java code to make the applications easy to use.
James Gosling, Sun VP, chief technology officer of Sun's developer products group and Sun Fellow, and the father of Java said: "The Brazilian National Health Service has really set the standard for the rest of the world in terms of using technology and Java to make it easier for medical staff to receive the most up-to-date information on patients.
"Java is also used to provide access to X-rays and many other features. Brazil has showed how this can work, whereas this has not happened in the U.S. yet, because of politics and medical centres being too obsessed with competition instead of agreeing over a common strategy.
"Last time I spoke to the people I know in Brazil, they said that they were talking to chiefs in Australia about this nation can make IT work in the medical service, just like it does in Brazil."
He is pleased with the success of recent Java inventions too, such as Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise 7.
Java Studio Creator makes it easy for users to build web sites quickly and keep it updated too. It is designed for people with unspecialised knowledge of how to build web pages, so that they can process information linked to databases. It can be used, for instance, to view travel expenses.
The Java Studio Enterprise 7 is a unified platform of tools, support, and developer services. It allows developers, working in different departments to communicate together whilst fine-tuning enterprise applications.
Gosling said that he hoped that Java would take off, but he did not expect it to become the phenomenon it is today, whereby 100 billion dollar transactions go through Java systems every day. He said that one of its biggest advantages is that the code is difficult to break into.
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