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What Is Java?: Platform: Any Hardware or Software Environment in Which A Program Runs, Is Known As

Java is a programming language and platform developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is a high-level, robust, object-oriented language. James Gosling is known as the father of Java. Java runs on many devices including desktops, web applications, enterprise applications, mobiles, embedded systems, smart cards, and more. There are four main types of Java applications: standalone, web, enterprise, and mobile.

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What Is Java?: Platform: Any Hardware or Software Environment in Which A Program Runs, Is Known As

Java is a programming language and platform developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is a high-level, robust, object-oriented language. James Gosling is known as the father of Java. Java runs on many devices including desktops, web applications, enterprise applications, mobiles, embedded systems, smart cards, and more. There are four main types of Java applications: standalone, web, enterprise, and mobile.

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What is Java?

Java is a programming language and a platform. Java is a high level, robust, object-


oriented and secure programming language.

Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the
year 1995. James Gosling is known as the father of Java. Before Java, its name was Oak.
Since Oak was already a registered company, so James Gosling and his team changed
the name from Oak to Java.

Platform: Any hardware or software environment in which a program runs, is known as


a platform. Since Java has a runtime environment (JRE) and API, it is called a platform.

Java Example
Let's have a quick look at Java programming example. A detailed description of Hello
Java example is available in next page.

Simple.java

class Simple{  
public static void main(String args[]){  
 System.out.println("Hello Java");  
  }  
}  

Application
According to Sun, 3 billion devices run Java. There are many devices where Java is
currently used. Some of them are as follows:

1. Desktop Applications such as acrobat reader, media player, antivirus, etc.


2. Web Applications such as irctc.co.in, javatpoint.com, etc.
3. Enterprise Applications such as banking applications.
4. Mobile
5. Embedded System
6. Smart Card
7. Robotics
8. Games, etc.

Types of Java Applications


There are mainly 4 types of applications that can be created using Java programming:

1) Standalone Application

Standalone applications are also known as desktop applications or window-based


applications. These are traditional software that we need to install on every machine.
Examples of standalone application are Media player, antivirus, etc. AWT and Swing are
used in Java for creating standalone applications.

2) Web Application

An application that runs on the server side and creates a dynamic page is called a web
application. Currently, Servlet, JSP, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, etc. technologies are
used for creating web applications in Java.

3) Enterprise Application

An application that is distributed in nature, such as banking applications, etc. is called an


enterprise application. It has advantages like high-level security, load balancing, and
clustering. In Java, EJB is used for creating enterprise applications.

4) Mobile Application

An application which is created for mobile devices is called a mobile application.


Currently, Android and Java ME are used for creating mobile applications.

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