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Java \Ja"va\ (j[aum]"v[.a]), n.

1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to
the Netherlands.
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2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
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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.
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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.
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Java
n 1: an island in Indonesia to the 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, java]

3: a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
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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.

Home (http://java.sun.com/)

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.java.

E-mail: .

(1995-12-06)

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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 2002, 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.

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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
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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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