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{{language|Java}}The '''Java''' programming language, developed by [[Sun Microsystems]], is a language aimed at allowing high performance, cross-platform application development. |
{{language|Java}}The '''Java''' programming language, developed by [[Sun Microsystems]], is a language aimed at allowing high performance, cross-platform application development. |
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Java source files (.java files) are typically [[Compiler|compiled]] to an intermediate [[bytecode]] language (.class files) and executed by a [[Java Virtual Machine]]. Most modern JVMs further compile the bytecode of a Java program into your processors' native machine code during execution. |
Java source files (.java files) are typically [[Compiler|compiled]] to an intermediate [[bytecode]] language (.class files) and executed by a [[Java Virtual Machine]]. Most modern JVMs further compile the bytecode of a Java program into your processors' native machine code during execution. This native code translation is done via a [[Just-In-Time|JIT]] compiler that is built-in to the JVM. Some Java compilers (such as [[GCJ]]) can compile Java code to native machine code ahead-of-time rather than just-in-time. |
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* Automatic memory management |
* Automatic memory management |
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* Huge user community |
* Huge user community |
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* Well supported by the open-source community and commercial industry (Sun, IBM, [[Oracle]], HP, BEA, [[Mac OS X|Apple]], etc.) |
* Well supported by the open-source community and commercial industry ([[Sun Microsystems|Sun]], [[IBM]], [[Oracle]], HP, BEA, [[Mac OS X|Apple]], etc.) |
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