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The NeWS Book

An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System

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  1. James Gosling

    1. Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, USA

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  2. David S. H. Rosenthal

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  3. Michelle J. Arden

    1. Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 1-9

  3. NeWS Overview

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 11-22

  4. Window System Architecture: History, Terms and Concepts

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 23-52

  5. Introduction to the PostScript Language

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 53-80

  6. NeWS Facilities for an Interactive World

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 81-117

  7. Object-Oriented PostScript

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 119-146

  8. NeWS Applications and the Network

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 147-161

  9. A Tour through a NeWS Application

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 163-176

  10. Porting NeWS to Other Platforms

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 177-198

  11. X11/NeWS Design Overview

    • James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden
    Pages 199-217

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-235
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About this book

This book is an introduction to NeWS: the Networked, Extensible, Window System from Sun Microsystems. It is oriented towards people who have a basic knowledge of programming and window systems who would like to understand more about window systems in general and NeWS in particular. A significant portion of the book is devoted to an overview and history of window systems. While there is enough detail here to allow readers to write simple NeWS applications, the NeWS Reference Manual [SUN87a] should be consulted for a more complete treatment. This book was written to refer to the NeWS 1. 1 product, available from Sun and also available from several non-Sun suppliers. Shortly after this book is published, Sun will be releasing the next version of NeW- the Xll/NeWS merged window system. Chapter 10 is dedicated to an overview of that product, but Xll/NeWS deserves a book of its own. All the code examples in this book have been tested on both NeWS and the Xll/NeWS merge. Should there be another edition of this book, we will discuss some of the new development being done in the user interface tool­ kit area on NeWS. Significantly, the NeWS Development Environment (NDE) is now being developed at Sun; NDE promises to eclipse existing user interface toolkit designs and window programming environments.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, USA

    James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The NeWS Book

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System

  • Authors: James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden

  • Series Title: Sun Technical Reference Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3606-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96915-2Published: 25 July 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8175-7Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3606-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-9675

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 235

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Software Engineering

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