Java

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Programming Language
Type Object-Oriented
Scope General Purpose

Java is a bit ambiguous, as it refers to some combination of the following:

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History

Java began in 1992 as "Oak", a programming language designed specifically to implement graphical applications for Sun Microsystem's experimental set-top home entertainment system. As the popularity of the World Wide Web exploded over the next few years, the focus of Oak shifted away from interactive television and towards web browsing on personal computers. It was renamed Java, and went public in 1995. It was soon integrated into the Netscape web browser, where Java applets could be used to create dynamic, graphical applications with quick response times. Applets were popular for several years, but along the way developers began to recognize the other benefits of a language that could be compiled once and run on any architecture or platform supported by Java.

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Cross-Platform

In the days before Java, software developers had to decide on which operating systems they wanted their software to efficiently run. This decision placed many constraints on the languages and technologies that could be used. One of the primary goals of Java was to eliminate this need for architecture-specific code by providing a platform-neutral wrapper around the operating system and underlying hardware architecture.

There is a trade-off here, of course. Because of this, the Java Virtual Machine has never been as tightly integrated into each of the operating systems that it runs on as some people would have liked. Java tends to support only the features that are present and similar among most of the platforms that it supports. However, despite these drawbacks, Java has been extremely successful in its original goal to provide a "write once, run anywhere" environment for developers.


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