Java



Java is a very recent and so far the most sophisticated component of
the Web software.
An interpreted secure subset of C++ developed by Sun Microsystems.
Published in April '95 and licenced by Netscape in May '95.
Offers ~200 object classes for
networking,
multithreading,
windowing,
text processing.

Any editor/word processing program may be used to create and
edit a Java program as long as it can save files in ASCII format.
Java compiler translates Java source code into Java bytecodes which are componenets of a machine-level language for the Java virtual machine.
Java bytecodes are interpreted and executed by the Java interpreter.
Java source file, will have the .java extension - the compiler names the
resulting compiled file as .class files after the classes defined in the source file.