Editing Java applet (section)

=== 1997: Sun vs Microsoft ===
The 1997 lawsuit,<ref name="s1997">{{cite web |last1=Zukowski |first1=John |date=1997-10-01 |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2077055/what-does-sun-s-lawsuit-against-microsoft-mean-for-java-developers-.html |title=What does Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft mean for Java developers? |work=[[JavaWorld]] |access-date=2020-07-13}}</ref> was filed after Microsoft created a modified [[Microsoft Java Virtual Machine|Java Virtual Machine of their own]], which shipped with Internet Explorer. Microsoft added about 50 methods and 50 fields<ref name="s1997"/> into the classes within the ''java.awt, java.lang'', and ''java.io'' packages. Other modifications included removal of [[Java remote method invocation|RMI]] capability and replacement of [[Java Native Interface]] from JNI to [[Java Native Interface#Alternatives|RNI]], a different standard. RMI was removed because it only easily supports Java to Java communications and competes with Microsoft [[Distributed Component Object Model|DCOM]] technology. Applets that relied on these changes or just inadvertently used them worked only within Microsoft's Java system. Sun sued for breach of [[trademark]], as the point of Java was that there should be no proprietary extensions and that code should work everywhere. Microsoft agreed to pay Sun $20 million, and Sun agreed to grant Microsoft limited license to use Java without modifications only and for a limited time.<ref name="sun_suits">{{cite web|url=http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/summary.html|title=Sun's page, devoted for the lawsuits against Microsoft|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819120756/http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/summary.html|archive-date=19 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>