[W/K] :: JAVA

  Java \Ja"va\ (j[aum]"v[.a]), n.
     1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to
        the Netherlands.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Computers) [all capitals] an object-oriented computer
        programming language, derived largely from C++, used
        widely for design and display of web pages on the
        world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has
        been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow
        execution of the same progam under multiple operating
        systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997)
        under active development, and is evolving.
        [GG + PJC]
  
     Java cat (Zool.), the musang.
  
     Java sparrow (Zool.), a species of finch ({Padda
        oryzivora), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a
        cage bird; -- called also ricebird, and paddy bird. In
        the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and
        tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks
        white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also
        kept as a cage bird.
        [1913 Webster]

  higher programming language \higher programming language\ n.
     (Computers)
     A computer programming language with an instruction set
     allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
     language instructions.
  
     Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
           instructions into one instruction allows much greater
           efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
           are now written in some higher programming language,
           such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++,
           PROLOG, or JAVA.
           [PJC]

  Java
       n 1: an island in Indonesia south of Borneo; one of the world's
            most densely populated regions
       2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans;
          "he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: coffee]
       3: a simple platform-independent object-oriented programming
          language used for writing applets that are downloaded from
          the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client's
          machine

  Java An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James
     Gosling (and known by the name "Oak") with the intention of being the
     successor to C++ (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an
     embedded language for use in set-top boxes). After the great Internet
     explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language
     and became the focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted
     it as the new language of choice for distributed applications.
  
     Java is indeed a stronger and cleaner design than C++ and has been
     embraced by many in the hacker community - but it has been a
     considerable source of frustration to many others, for reasons ranging
     from uneven support on different Web browser platforms, performance
     issues, and some notorious deficiencies in some of the standard toolkits
     (AWT in particular). Microsoft's determined attempts to corrupt the
     language (which it rightly sees as a threat to its OS monopoly) have not
     helped. As of 2001, these issues are still in the process of being
     resolved.
  
     Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to
     find people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a
     complex, real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet,
     and no other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under
     the limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already
     been a big win in academic circles, where it has taken the place of
     Pascal as the preferred tool for teaching the basics of good
     programming to the next generation of hackers.
  
  

  Java
       
           (After the Indonesian island, a
          source of programming fluid) A simple, object-oriented,
          distributed, interpreted, robust, secure,
          architecture-neutral, portable, multithreaded, dynamic,
          buzzword-compliant, general-purpose programming language
          developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995(?).  Java supports
          programming for the Internet in the form of
          platform-independent Java "applets".
       
          Java is similar to C++ without operator overloading
          (though it does have method overloading), without multiple
          inheritance, and extensive automatic coercions.  It has
          automatic garbage collection.
       
          Java programs can run stand-alone on small computers.  The
          interpreter and class support take about 40 kilobytes;
          adding the standard libraries and thread support
          (essentially a self-contained microkernel) adds an
          additional 175Kb.
       
          Java extends C++'s object-oriented facilities with those
          of Objective C for dynamic method resolution.
       
          Java has an extensive library of routines for TCP/IP
          protocols like HTTP and FTP.  Java applications can
          access objects across the Internet via URLs as easily as
          on the local file system.
       
          The Java compiler and linker both enforce strong type
          checking - procedures must be explicitly typed.  Java
          supports the creation of virus-free, tamper-free systems
          with authentication based on public-key encryption.
       
          The Java compiler generates an architecture-neutral object
          file executable on any processor supporting the Java run-time
          system.  The object code consists of bytecode instructions
          designed to be both easy to interpret on any machine and
          easily translated into native machine code at load time.
       
          The Java libraries provide portable interfaces.  For example,
          there is an abstract Window class and implementations of it
          for Unix, Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh.  The
          run-time system is written in POSIX-compliant ANSI C.  Java
          applets can be executed as attachments in World-Wide Web
          documents using either Sun's HotJava browser or Netscape
          Navigator version 2.0.
       
          http://java.sun.com/).html">Home (http://java.sun.com/).
       
          Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.java.
       
          E-mail: .
       
          (1995-12-06)
       
       

  Java, SD (city, FIPS 32460)
    Location: 45.50358 N, 99.88423 W
    Population (1990): 161 (125 housing units)
    Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57452
  Java, VA
    Zip code(s): 24565

  Java, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    197
     Housing Units (2000): 133
     Land area (2000):     0.479417 sq. miles (1.241684 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.479417 sq. miles (1.241684 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            32460
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             45.502870 N, 99.886049 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     57452
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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