Friday, October 16, 2009

Java (programming language)

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Java
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Paradigm Object-oriented, structured, imperative
Appeared in 1995
Designed by Sun Microsystems
Stable release Java Standard Edition 6 (1.6.0_16)
Typing discipline Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest
Major implementations Numerous
Dialects Generic Java, Pizza
Influenced by Objective-C,[1] Ada 83, Delphi Object Pascal[2], UCSD Pascal[3][4] C++, C#,[5] Eiffel,[6] Smalltalk, Mesa,[7] Modula-3,[8] Generic Java
Influenced Ada 2005, C#, Clojure, D, ECMAScript, Groovy, J#, PHP, Scala, JavaScript, Python, BeanShell
OS Cross-platform (multi-platform)
License GNU General Public License / Java Community Process
Website http://java.sun.com

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems 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.

The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were developed by Sun from 1995. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of their Java technologies under the GNU General Public License. Others have also developed alternative implementations of these Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath.

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