Java \Ja"va\ (j[aum]"v[.a]), n.
   1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to
      the Netherlands.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Computers) [all capitals] an object-oriented computer
      programming language, derived largely from C++, used
      widely for design and display of web pages on the
      world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has
      been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow
      execution of the same progam under multiple operating
      systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997)
      under active development, and is evolving.
      [GG + PJC]

   Java cat (Zool.), the musang.

   Java sparrow (Zool.), a species of finch (Padda
      oryzivora), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a
      cage bird; -- called also ricebird, and paddy bird. In
      the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and
      tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks
      white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also
      kept as a cage bird.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	higher programming language \higher programming language\ n.
   (Computers)
   A computer programming language with an instruction set
   allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
   language instructions.

   Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
         instructions into one instruction allows much greater
         efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
         are now written in some higher programming language,
         such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++,
         PROLOG, or JAVA.
         [PJC]

	

	Java
    n 1: an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the
         world's most densely populated regions
    2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans;
       "he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: coffee, java]
    3: a platform-independent object-oriented programming language

	

	Java


    An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling
    (and known by the name ?Oak?) with the intention of being the successor to
    C++ (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded
    language for use in set-top boxes). After the great Internet explosion of
    1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the
    focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new
    language of choice for distributed applications.

    Java is indeed a stronger and cleaner design than C++ and has been embraced
    by many in the hacker community ? but it has been a considerable source of
    frustration to many others, for reasons ranging from uneven support on
    different Web browser platforms, performance issues, and some notorious
    deficiencies in some of the standard toolkits (AWT in particular).
    Microsoft's determined attempts to corrupt the language (which it rightly
    sees as a threat to its OS monopoly) have not helped. As of 2003, these
    issues are still in the process of being resolved.

    Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to find
    people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a complex,
    real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet, and no
    other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the
    limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already been a big
    win in academic circles, where it has taken the place of Pascal as the
    preferred tool for teaching the basics of good programming to the next
    generation of hackers.

	

	Java

    (After the Indonesian island, a
   source of programming fluid) A simple, object-oriented,
   distributed, interpreted, robust, secure,
   architecture-neutral, portable, multithreaded, dynamic,
   buzzword-compliant, general-purpose programming language
   developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990's (initially for
   set-top television controllers), and released to the public in 1995.

   Java first became popular by being the earliest portable
   dynamic client-side content for the World-Wide Web in the
   form of platform-independent Java "applets". In the late
   1990's and into the 2000's it has also become very popular
   on the server side, where an entire set of APIs defines the J2EE.

   Java is both a set of public specifications (controlled by
   Sun Microsystems through the JCP) and a series of
   implementations of those specifications.

   Java is syntactially similar to C++ without user-definable
   operator overloading, (though it does have method
   overloading), without multiple inheritance, and extensive
   automatic coercions.  It has automatic garbage collection.
   Java extends C++'s object-oriented facilities with those
   of Objective C for dynamic method resolution.

   Whereas programs in C++ and similar languages are compiled
   and linked to platform-specific binary executables, Java
   programs are typically compiled to portable architecture-neutral
   bytecode or ".class" files, which are run using a Java
   Virtual Machine.  The JVM is also called an interpreter,
   though it is more correct to say that it uses Just-In-Time
   Compilation to convert the bytecode into native machine
   code, yielding greater efficiency than most interpreted
   languages, rivalling C++ for many long-running, non-GUI
   applications.  The run-time system is typically written in
   POSIX-compliant ANSI C or C++.  Some implementations
   allow Java class files to be translated into native
   machine code during or after compilation.

   The Java compiler and linker both enforce strong type
   checking - procedures must be explicitly typed.  Java
   supports the creation of virus-free, tamper-free systems
   with authentication based on public-key encryption.

   Java has an extensive library of routines for all kinds of
   programming tasks, rivalling that of other languages.

   For example, the "java.net} package supports TCP/IP
   protocols like HTTP and FTP.  Java applications can
   access objects across the Internet via URLs almost as easily as
   on the local file system. There are also capabilities for
   several types of distributed applications.

   The Java GUI libraries provide portable interfaces.  For example,
   there is an abstract Window class and implementations of it
   for Unix, Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh.
   The "java.awt" and "javax.swing" classes can be used either in
   Web-based "Applets" or in client-side or "desktop" applications.

   There are also packages for developing XML applications,
   web services, servlets and other web applications,
   security, date and time calculations and I/O formatting,
   database (JDBC), and many others.

   Java is not directly related to JavaScript despite the name.

   (http://java.sun.com/).

   Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.java.

   (2005-01-21)

	

	Java, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    197
   Housing Units (2000): 133
   Land area (2000):     0.479417 sq. miles (1.241684 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.479417 sq. miles (1.241684 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            32460
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             45.502870 N, 99.886049 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     57452
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
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