introduction to java

This section introduces you the Java programming language. These days Java programming language is being used for programming web applications. It is also widely used for mobile and electronic items.
What is Java?
Java is a high-level object-oriented programming language developed by the Sun Microsystems. Though it is associated with the World Wide Web but it is older than the origin of Web.

Java as an Internet Language
Java is an object oriented language and a very simple language. Because it has no space for complexities. At the initial stages of its development it was called as OAK. OAK was designed for handling set up boxes and devices.

Java as general purpose language
Java is an Object oriented application programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java Features

Case sensitivity
What is case sensitivity: Case sensitivity is the mechanism in which words can be differ in meaning based on different use of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Java is Simple and platform Independent
The concept of Write-once-run-anywhere (known as the Platform independent) is one of the important key feature of java language that makes java as the most powerful language.

Java Enabled browsers
Java language is the most powerful language and is widely used in the web application. Today most of the web browser are java compatible.

Java Tools

Java Compiler
To commence with Java programming, we must know the significance of Java Compiler.

Java Interpreter
We can run Java on most platforms provided a platform must has a Java interpreter.

Java Debugger
Java debugger helps in finding and the fixing of bugs in Java language programs.

Java Header File Generator
In Java programming we need to implement some native methods. To implement these methods Javah generates C header and source files that are used by C programs to reference an Object's instance variables from native source code.

JavaDoc
This tool is used to generate API documentation into HTML format from Java source code.

Applet Viewer
Applet viewer is a command line program to run Java applets.