Lively Kernel canvas
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TheLivelyKernelisawebprogrammingenvironment.ItwasdevelopedatSunMicrosystemsLaboratoriesandisnowavaiableasopensourcesoftwaretoencouragefurtherexplorationbyacademicsandadventurousdevelopers.TheLivelyKernelsupportsdesktop-styleapplicationswithrichgraphicsanddirectmanipulationcapabilities,butwithouttheinstallationorupgradehasslesthatconventionaldesktopapplicationshave.ThesystemiswrittenentirelyintheJavaScriptprogramminglanguage,alanguagesupportedbyallthewebbrowsers,withtheintentthatthesystemcanrunincommercialwebbrowserswithoutinstallationoranyplug-incomponents.ThesystemleveragesthedynamiccharacteristicsoftheJavaScriptlanguagetomakeitpossibletocreate,modifyanddeployapplicationsonthefly,usingtoolsbuiltintothesystemitself.Inadditiontoitsapplicationexecutioncapabilities,theLivelyKernelcanalsofunctionasanintegrateddevelopmentenvironment(IDE),makingthewholesystemself-sufficientandabletoimproveandextenditselfdynamically.2012
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