JAVA is an Object oriented progarmming Language which was developed by James Gosling in SUNMICRO system in 1991.Java released its first verion in 1995 i.e. JAVA 1.0 and its latest version is JAVA ST 8.0.
Old name of Java was OAK.
In 2010.Java was acquired by Oracle Corporation.Java is very popular among all programming languages due to its special features which make it differnt from other languages:--
1. Simple and secure.
*It is secure because it generate byte code and source code , Only byte code is transfered from system to system.And in this ,concept of pointers is not there which makes this secure.
2. Platform Independent.
*Java is platform independent means it can run on any platform,
3. It is portable .
4.Complier and Interpreter.
*It has complier and interpreter too.JVM(Java Virtual Machine) that takes byte code and generate Machine code which acts as interpreter.
5. Distributed.
*It means we can run Java program on Computer Network.
6.Multi-threaded.
*Multithreading in Java is a process of executing multiple threads simultaneously.
Thread is basically a lightweight sub-process, a smallest unit of processing. Multiprocessing and multithreading, both are used to achieve multitasking.
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