What Is Java?
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, a company.Best known for its high-end Unix workstations. Modeled after C++, the Java language was designed to be small, simple, and portable across platforms and operating systems, both at the source and at the binary level (more about this later).Java is often mentioned in the same breath as HotJava, a World Wide Web browser from Sun like Netscape or Mosaic.What makes HotJava different from most other browsers is that, in addition to all its basic Web features, it can also download and play applets on the reader’s system. Applets appear in a Web page much in the same way as images do, but unlike images, applets are dynamic and interactive. Applets can be used to create animations,figures, or areas that can respond to input from the reader, games, or other interactive effects on the same Web pages among the text and graphics.Although HotJava was the first World Wide Web browser to be able to play Java applets, Java support is rapidly becoming available in other browsers. Netscape 2.0 provides support for Java applets, and other browser developers have also announced support for Java in forthcoming products.
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