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Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world,
calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a
few. It's also integral to the intranet applications and other
e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing.
Java software for your computer, or the Java Runtime Environment, is
also referred to as the Java Runtime, Runtime Environment, Runtime, JRE,
Java Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine, Java VM, JVM, VM, Java plug-in,
Java plugin, Java add-on or Java download.
Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is, as of 2014, one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them.
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| SIR JAMES GOSLING, THE CREATOR OF JAVA |
Paradigms multi-paradigm:
object-oriented, structured, imperative, functional, generic, reflective, concurrent
Designed by:
James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Developer:
Oracle Corporation
Appeared in:
1995
Stable release:
Java Standard Edition 8 Update 25 (1.8.0_25) / October 14, 2014
Typing discipline:
Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest
Major implementations:
OpenJDK, GNU Compiler for Java(gcj), many others
Dialects:
Generic Java, Pizza
Influenced by:
Ada 83, C++, C#, Eiffel, Generic Java, Mesa, Modula-3, Oberon, Objective-C, UCSD Pascal, Smalltalk
Influenced:
Ada 2005, BeanShell, C#, Clojure, D, ECMAScript, Groovy, J#, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Scala, Seed7, Vala
Implementation language:
C and C++
Operating System (OS):
Cross-platform (Multi-platform), Platform independent
License:
GNU General Public License, Java Community Process
File name extensions:
.java , .class, .jar
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