What is Java, in a Nutshell?
What is Java?
- A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic, programming language.
Java is interesting because
- It is both a general purpose object-oriented language along the lines of C++, and
- It is particularly designed to interface with Web pages and to enable distributed applications over the Internet.
The Web is becoming the dominant software development arena; this will drive Java as the best supported, most widely taught language.
- Particularly good as a language for K-12 teaching.
- Even outside the Web, e.g. in scientific computing, Java is as good and in some respects better than other languages.