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Foil 13 Java Features -- It's Object-oriented

From CPS616 Lectures on Java CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Java model can be viewed as a C++ subset, with some dynamic elements inherited from Objective-C (method overloading, garbage collection).
Structures, Unions and Functions are absorbed into data and methods of Java classes -- Java is Simple!
The strength of Java object-oriented model is not is sophistication but in simplicity and the extensive class library associated with the system (some 250 public classes were released in both alpha and beta).
Java class plays also a role of a communication atom in the Web embedding model. Applet classes identify themselves by names in the HTML applet tag. Applet downloads other classes, present in the applet source. Hence, the Java class names play the role of addressing mode for the distributed Java code database.



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