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English Dictionary: Java by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Java
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): coffee, java
  3. a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Java \Ja"va\, n.
      1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to
            the Netherlands.
  
      2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
  
      {Java cat} (Zo[94]l.), the musang.
  
      {Java sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), 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.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   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 of 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 1999, 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   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 {URL}s 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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