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Foil 29 Some Key Java Features and Philosophy

From Introduction to Java Tutorial Aimed at Scientific Users NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
First we discuss original Java base language features as discussed in Java: A White Paper by Sun Microsystems -- October 1995 draft by James Gosling and Henry McGilton -- enumerates the original design of Java:
  • Simple and Familiar
  • Object-oriented
  • Architecture-neutral
  • Portable
  • Somewhat Interpreted
  • Distributed
  • Robust
  • Secure
  • High performance
  • Multi Threaded
  • Dynamic
Finally we mention additional features added to Java in more recent versions.

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