The language is platform independent. If I develop a program on my Windows computer using Java, the same program will work on a Mac or Linux/Unix computer without further modification. Java is also useful for developing applications on mobile devices, many of todays current cell phones use a Java based operating system.
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Yes!Visual Java plus plus and Java Builder is different from the Java language?
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There are several types of Java technology. Some examples of Java software are Java ME, Java EE, Java SE, and Java Card. Java made the JAVA development kit for those that develop in Java. There is also Java Virtual machine and some class libraries. Java is also famous for its languages like Clojure, Beanshell, Groovy, Gosu, Rhino, Kotlin, JRuby, Scala, and Jython.
Java applets
Java applet is a program used to run java applications while beans is a compiler used to design java programs (IDE, GUI) :-) GilbertC
Programs that are specifically designed with Java require a Java runtime to work on a computer. (In the case of Java, the runtime is called "Java Virtual Machine".) If you have any such program, you need to have Java.
Java coffee is made in Java, which is an island - part of INDONESIA
Java 7 is the most current version of Java. Many movies and games use Java.
James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems developed Java in the early 1990s. The language was officially released to the public in 1995. Java was designed to be simple, secure, portable, and object-oriented, making it one of the most popular programming languages in the world.
The supermost package of Java is the "java" package.
Well you get java as java and javascript as iava.