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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.

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.

* Well supported by the open-source community and commercial industry (Sun, IBM, [[Oracle]], HP, BEA, [[Mac OS X|Apple]], etc.)

Java is used in a variety of environments including desktop applications, embedded device (PDA and wireless phone) applications, server-side web page serving applications (as [[Java Server Pages|JSP]]) and [[applets]] embedded in web pages.