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The Java Buzzwords No Discussion of The Genesis of Java Is C

The document discusses the key considerations or buzzwords that molded the final form of the Java language, which were simplicity, security, portability, being object-oriented, robustness, being multithreaded, architecture neutrality, being interpreted, high performance, and being distributed. It also discusses several features of Java like its memory management, support for multithreaded programming, architecture neutrality, ability to run on various systems, and dynamic linking of code.

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The Java Buzzwords No Discussion of The Genesis of Java Is C

The document discusses the key considerations or buzzwords that molded the final form of the Java language, which were simplicity, security, portability, being object-oriented, robustness, being multithreaded, architecture neutrality, being interpreted, high performance, and being distributed. It also discusses several features of Java like its memory management, support for multithreaded programming, architecture neutrality, ability to run on various systems, and dynamic linking of code.

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The Java Buzzwords:

No discussion of the genesis of Java is complete without a look at the Java buzzwords.
Although the fundamental forces that necessitated the invention of Java are portability and
security, other factors also played an important role in molding the final form of the language.
The key considerations were summed up by the Java team in the Following list of buzzwords:
Simple Secure Portable Object-oriented Robust Multithreaded Architecture-neutral
Interpreted High performance Distributed Dynamic Simple Java was designed to be easy for
the professional programmer to learn and use effectively. Assuming that you have some
programming experience, you will not find Java hard to master. If you already understand the
basic concepts of object-oriented programming, learning Java will be even easier. Best of all,
if you are an experienced C++ programmer, moving to Java will require very little effort.
Because Java inherits the C/C++ syntax and many of the object-oriented features of C++,
most programmers have little trouble learning Java. Object-Oriented Although influenced by
its predecessors, Java was not designed to be source-code compatible with any other
language. Borrowing liberally from many seminal object-software environments of the last
few decades, Java manages to strike a balance between the everything is an object‖
paradigm and the programming. Robust The multi platformed environment of the Web
places extraordinary demands on a program, because the program must execute reliably in
a variety of systems. Thus, the ability to create robust programs was given a high priority in
the design of Java. To better understand how Java is robust, consider two of the main
reasons for program failure: memory management mistakes and mishandled exceptional
conditions (that is, run-time errors). Memory management can be a difficult, tedious task in
traditional programming environments. For example, in C/C++, the programmer must
manually allocate and free all dynamic memory. This sometimes leads to problems,
because programmers will either forget to free memory that has been previously allocated
or, worse, try to free some memory that another part of their code is still using. Java virtually
eliminates these problems by managing memory allocation and deallocation for you.
Multithreaded Java was designed to meet the real-world requirement of creating interactive,
networked programs. To accomplish this, Java supports multithreaded programming, which
allows you to write programs that do many things simultaneously. The Java run-time system
comes with an elegant yet sophisticated solution for multi-process synchronization that
enables you to construct smoothly running interactive systems. Architecture-Neutral A
central issue for the Java designers was that of code longevity and portability. One of the
main problems facing programmers is that no guarantee exists that if you write a program
today, it will run tomorrow—even on the same machine. Operating system up grades,
processor upgrades, and changes in core system resources can all combine to make a
program malfunction. The Java designers made several hard decisions in the Java language
and the Java Virtual Machine in an attempt to alter this situation forever. To a great extent,
this goal was accomplished. programs by compiling into an intermediate representation
called Java bytecode. system that provides a Java Virtual Machine. Most previous attempts
at cross platform solutions have done so at the expense of performance. Java, however, was
designed to perform well on very low-power CPUs. Distributed Java is designed for the
distributed environment of the Internet, because it handles TCP/IP protocols. In fact,
accessing a resource using a URL is not much different from accessing a file. The original
version of Java (Oak) included features for intra address-space messaging. This allowed
objects on two different computers to execute procedures remotely. Java revived these
interfaces in a package called Remote Method Invocation (RMI). This feature brings an
unparalleled level of abstraction to client/server programming. Dynamic Java programs
carry with them substantial amounts of run-time type information that is used to verify and
resolve accesses to objects at run time. This makes it possible to dynamically link code in a
safe and expedient manner. This is crucial to the robustness of the applet environment, in
which small fragments of bytecode may be dynamically updated on a running system.

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