Introduction to Java

This section introduces you the Java programming language. These days Java programming language is being used for programming web  applications. It is also widely used for mobile and electronic items.

1. What is Java?
   Java is a high-level object-oriented programming language developed by the Sun Microsystems. Though it is associated with the World Wide Web but it is older than the origin of Web.
      
2. Java as an Internet Language
   Java is an object oriented language and a very simple language. Because it has no space for complexities. At the initial stages of its development it was called as OAK. OAK was designed for handling set up boxes and devices.
                     
3. Java as general purpose language
   Java is an Object oriented application programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
                       
   Java Features
                    
4. Case sensitivity
   What is case sensitivity:  Case sensitivity is the mechanism in which words can be differ in meaning based on different use of uppercase and lowercase letters.
               
5. Java is Simple and platform Independent
   The concept of Write-once-run-anywhere (known as the Platform independent) is one of the important key feature of java language that makes java as the most powerful language.
                      
6. Java Enabled browsers
   Java language is the most powerful language and is widely used in the web application. Today most of the web browser are java compatible.
                                     
   Java Tools 
                   
7. Java Compiler
   To commence with Java programming, we must know the significance of Java Compiler.
                
8. Java Interpreter 
   We can run Java on most platforms provided a platform must has a Java interpreter.
                       
9. Java Debugger
   Java debugger helps in finding and the fixing of bugs in Java language programs.
                        
10. Java Header File Generator
    In Java programming we need to implement some native methods. To implement these methods Javah generates C header and source files that are used by C programs to reference an Object's instance variables from native source code.
                       
11. JavaDoc
    This tool is used to generate API documentation into HTML format from Java source code.
                           
12. Applet Viewer
    Applet viewer is a command line program to run Java applets.