CMPS 251 – Spring 2021

Lecture -01

Fundamentals of Java

KHALED KHAN
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
What is Java?
What is Java?
• Java is a class-based, general-purpose, object-oriented programming
language.
• Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (1995)
• Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems (2010)
• Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode:
• bytecodes run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the
underlying computer architecture
• Syntax is similar to C and C++ with fewer low-level facilities than either
of them
• The latest version is Java 15 (Sept. 2020)
• Java 11 is the currently supported long-term support (LTS) version
• Very popular:
• Billions of devices, 10 million developers.
Principles of Java
• It must be simple, object-oriented, and familiar.
• It must be robust and secure.
• It must be architecture-neutral and portable.
• It must execute with high performance.
• It must be interpreted, threaded, and dynamic.
ApplicaQons of Java
• Mobile Applications
• Desktop GUI Applications
• Web-based Applications
• Web Servers and Application Servers
• Enterprise Applications
• Scientific Applications
• Gaming Applications
• Big Data Technologies
• Business Applications
• Cloud-based Applications
Java Versions
• The software you use to write Java programs is called the Java Developmen
Kit, or JDK.
• There are different editions of the JDK:
• Java SE - Java2 Standard Edition.
• Java EE - Java2 Enterprise Edition.
• Java ME - Java2 Micro Edition.
• Available for download at
http://java.oracle.com
Java Standard EdiQon
• Java Standard Edition contains the capabilities needed to develop
desktop and server applications.
• Prior to Java SE 8, Java supported three programming paradigms
• Procedural programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Generic programming
• Java SE 8 added the beginnings of functional programming with lambdas
and streams
Java Enterprise EdiQon
• Java is used in such a broad spectrum of applications that it has two
other editions.
• The Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is geared toward developing:
• large-scale applications
• distributed networking applications
• and web-based applications.
Java Micro EdiQon (Java ME)
• Subset of Java SE.
• Geared toward developing applications for resource-constrained embedded
devices, such as
• Smartwatches
• MP3 players
• television set-top boxes
• smart meters (for monitoring electric energy usage)
• and more.
• Many of the devices in use Java ME.
Java Development
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Normally there are five phases
1. edit
2. compile
3. load
4. verify
5. execute.
• Before you begin see LAB-1 on downloading and installing the JDK on Windows,
Linux and macOS
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 1 Editing a file with an editor program
1. Using the editor, you type a Java program (source code).
2. Make any necessary corrections.
3. Save the program.
4. Java source code files are given a name ending with the .java
extension.
• Integrated development environments (IDEs) provide tools that support the
software development process.
• The most popular Java IDEs are:
• Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org)
• IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com)
• NetBeans (http://www.netbeans.org)
A Typical Java Development Environment
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 2: Compiling a Java Program into Bytecodes
• Use the command javac (the Java compiler) to compile a program. For
example, to compile a program called Welcome.java, you’d type

javac Welcome.java
• If the program compiles, the compiler produces a .class file called
Welcome.class that contains the compiled version.
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Bytecodes?
• Java compiler translates Java source code into bytecodes
• Bytecode instructions are platform independent
• The Java Virtual Machine (JVM)—a part of the JDK and the foundation of
the Java platform—executes bytecodes.
• Virtual machine (VM)—a software application that simulates a computer
• Hides the underlying operating system and hardware from the programs
that interact with it.
• The JVM is invoked by the java command. For example, to execute a Java
application called Welcome, you’d type the command

java Welcome
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 3: Loading a Program into Memory
• The JVM places the program in memory to execute it—this is known as
loading.
• Class loader takes the .class files containing the program’s
bytecodes and transfers them to primary memory. Also loads any of
the .class files provided by Java that your program uses.
• The .class files can be loaded from a disk on your system or over a
network.
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 3: Loading a Program into Memory
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 4: Bytecode Verification
• The bytecode verifier examines their bytecodes ensuring that they’re
valid and do not violate Java’s security restrictions.
• Java enforces strong security to make sure that programs do not damage
your files or your system (as computer viruses and worms might).
A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 5: Execution
• JVMs typically execute bytecodes using a combination of interpretation
and so-called just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Analyzes the bytecodes as
they’re interpreted
• A just-in-time (JIT) compiler—such as Oracle’s Java HotSpot™ compiler—
translates the bytecodes into the underlying computer’s machine
language.
• Java programs go through two compilation phases
• One in which source code is translated into bytecodes (for
portability across JVMs on different computer platforms) and
• A second in which, during execution, the bytecodes are translated
into machine language for the actual computer on which the program
executes.
 A Typical Java Development Environment
• Phase 5: Execution
Program Development Process
Saves Java statements
Text editor Source code
(.java)
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Produces Byte code

Java compiler (.class)

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Java Results in Program
Virtual Execution
Machine
Java Portability
Portability in Java
• Portable means that a program may be written on one type of computer
and then run on a wide variety of computers, with little or no
modification.
• Java byte code runs on the JVM and not on any particular CPU;
therefore, compiled Java programs are highly portable.
• JVMs exist on many platforms:
• Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, …etc.

Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA)*

*Sun Microsystems (Java 1.0 in 1996)
 Portability in Java
• While most programming languages achieve portability by compiling a program
for each CPU it will run on, Java provides an JVM for each platform so that
programmers do not have to recompile for different platforms.

Byte code
(.class)

Java Virtual Java Virtual

Machine for Windows Machine for Unix

Java Virtual Java Virtual

Machine for Linux Machine for Mac
Errors
Errors
• An error in a program is called a bug.
• Eliminating errors is called debugging.
• Three kinds or errors
• Syntax errors
• Runtime errors
• Logic errors
Syntax Errors
• Grammatical mistakes in a program
• The grammatical rules for writing a program are very strict
• The compiler catches syntax errors and prints an error message.
• Example: using a period where a program expects a comma
 RunQme Errors
• Errors that are detected when your program is running, but not during
compilation
• When the computer detects an error, it terminates the program and prints
an error message.
• Example: attempting to divide by 0
Logic Errors
• Errors that are not detected during compilation or while running, but
which cause the program to produce incorrect results
• Example: an attempt to calculate a Fahrenheit temperature from a
Celsius temperature by multiplying by 9/5 and adding 23 instead of 32

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