what is JAVA

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 (see Figure 1.1). 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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