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Java (programming language)
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"Java language" redirects here. For the natural language from the Indonesian island of Java, see Javanese language.
Not to be confused with JavaScript.

Java |
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Paradigm(s) | multi-paradigm: object-oriented, structured, imperative, generic, reflective |
Appeared in | 1995 (1995) |
Designed by | James Gosling and
Sun Microsystems |
Developer | Oracle Corporation |
Stable release | Java Standard Edition 7 Update 5 (1.7.5) (June 12, 2012; 18 days ago (2012-06-12)) |
Typing discipline | Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest |
Major implementations | OpenJDK, many others |
Dialects | Generic Java, Pizza |
Influenced by | Ada 83, C++, C#,[1] Eiffel,[2] Generic Java, Mesa,[3] Modula-3,[4] Oberon,[5] Objective-C,[6] UCSD Pascal,[7][8] Smalltalk |
Influenced | Ada 2005, BeanShell, C#, Clojure, D, ECMAScript, Groovy, J#, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Scala, Vala |
OS | Cross-platform (multi-platform) |
License | GNU General Public License, Java Community Process |
Usual filename extensions | .java, .class, .jar |
Website | For Java Developers |
Java Programming at Wikibooks |
Java is a programming language 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 has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is 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...