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Overview of Java Programming Language

The Java programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s, is a portable, object-oriented language primarily used for Internet-based applications. It features robust security measures that protect systems from malicious programs and allows applets to run safely within web pages. Java's unique architecture enables it to be both compiled and interpreted, allowing its byte-code to run on any Java Virtual Machine, ensuring portability across different platforms.

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Overview of Java Programming Language

The Java programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s, is a portable, object-oriented language primarily used for Internet-based applications. It features robust security measures that protect systems from malicious programs and allows applets to run safely within web pages. Java's unique architecture enables it to be both compiled and interpreted, allowing its byte-code to run on any Java Virtual Machine, ensuring portability across different platforms.

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Java Programming Language

The Java programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s.
Although it is primarily used for Internet-based applications, Java is a simple, efficient, general-
purpose language. Java was originally designed for embedded network applications running on
multiple platforms. It is a portable, object-oriented, interpreted language.

Java is vantages is its set of security features which protect a PC running a Java program not
only from problems caused by erroneous code but also from malicious programs (such as
viruses). You can safely run a Java applet downloaded from the Internet, because Java's
security features prevent these types of applets from accessing a PC's hard drive or network
connections. An applet is typically a small Java program that is embedded within an HTML
page.

Java can be considered both a compiled and an interpreted language because its source code
is first compiled into a binary byte-code. This byte-code runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM),
which is usually a software-based interpreter. The use of compiled byte-code allows the
interpreter (the virtual machine) to be small and efficient (and nearly as fast as the CPU running
native, compiled code). In addition, this byte-code gives Java its portability: it will run on any
JVM that is correctly implemented, regardless of computer hardware or software configuration.
Most Web browsers (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator) contain a
JVM to run Java applets.

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