Java (programming language)

Paradigm(s)	Object-oriented, structured, imperative
Appeared in	1995
Designed by	James Gosling and Sun Microsystems
Developer	Oracle Corporation
Stable release	Java Standard Edition 7 Update 2(1.7.2) (December 12, 2011; 1 day ago)
Typing discipline	Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest
Major implementations	OpenJDK, HotSpot, many others
Dialects	Generic Java, Pizza
Influenced by	Ada 83, C++, C#, Delphi Object Pascal, Eiffel, Generic Java, Mesa, Modula-3, Oberon, Objective-C, UCSD Pascal, Smalltalk
Influenced	Ada 2005, BeanShell, C#, Clojure, D, ECMAScript, Groovy, J#, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Scala, Vala
OS	Cross-platform (multi-platform)
License	GNU General Public License / Java Community Process
Usual filename extensions	.java, .class, .jar

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere." Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications

The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were developed by Sun from 1995. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GNU General Public License. Others have also developed alternative implementations of these Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath. Now Click here to download this software.

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