In a relatively short time, Java has had a phenomenal impact on the computer industry and business in general, revolutionising the development of computer applications.

Java has emerged into the public domain, developed rapidly and then stabilised into a core language to which new capabilities are being added on a regular basis.

Two of its strongest features are the ability of the same piece of code to run on just about any hardware under just about any operating system and the fact that is was designed from the beginning to communicate across networks.

Today, Java is in use in a variety of devices from smart cards to corporate mainframes and in applications as diverse as mobile phones to mission critical transaction based enterprise systems.

Although created by Sun Microsystems, Java now has the considerable support of the major computer hardware and software corporations including IBM, Intel, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Sony and many more. Only Microsoft appears to be trying to spoil the party, the portability of Java based applications being a threat to their platforms.

Patriot are ideally placed to design and develop applications using the Java technology. Our experience spans a range of configurations from stand-alone applications for a PC through to n-tier applications that support both thick client and browser based thin client access