Software Analysis Report: JDK 1.

About java: Features

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. Not even a single
language is idle to this feature but java is closer to this feature. The
programs written on one platform can run on any platform
provided the platform must have the JVM.

Simple

There are various features that make the java as a simple language.
Programs are easy to write and debug because java does not use
the pointers explicitly. It is much harder to write the java programs
that can crash the system but we can not say about the other
programming languages. Java provides the bug free system due to
the strong memory management. It also has the automatic memory
allocation and de-allocation system.

Object Oriented

To be an Object Oriented language, any language must follow at

least the four characteristics.
 • Inheritance : It is the process of creating the new classes and
using the behavior of the existing classes by extending them
just to reuse the existing code and adding the additional
features as needed.
• Encapsulation: It is the mechanism of combining the
information and providing the abstraction.
• Polymorphism: As the name suggest one name multiple
form, Polymorphism is the way of providing the different
functionality by the functions having the same name based on
the signatures of the methods.
• Dynamic binding: Sometimes we don't have the knowledge
of objects about their specific types while writing our code. It
is the way of providing the maximum functionality to a
program about the specific type at runtime.

As the languages like Objective C, C++ fulfills the above four

characteristics yet they are not fully object oriented languages
because they are structured as well as object oriented languages.
But in case of java, it is a fully Object Oriented language because
object is at the outer most level of data structure in java. No stand
alone methods, constants, and variables are there in java.
Everything in java is object even the primitive data types can also
be converted into object by using the wrapper class.

Robust

Java has the strong memory allocation and automatic garbage

collection mechanism. It provides the powerful exception handling
and type checking mechanism as compare to other programming
languages. Compiler checks the program whether there any error
and interpreter checks any run time error and makes the system
secure from crash. All of the above features makes the java
language robust.
Distributed

The widely used protocols like HTTP and FTP are developed in
java. Internet programmers can call functions on these protocols
and can get access the files from any remote machine on the
internet rather than writing codes on their local system.

Portable

The feature Write-once-run-anywhere makes the java language

portable provided that the system must have interpreter for the
JVM. Java also have the standard data size irrespective of
operating system or the processor. These features make the java as
a portable language.

Dynamic

While executing the java program the user can get the required
files dynamically from a local drive or from a computer thousands
of miles away from the user just by connecting with the Internet.

Secure

Java does not use memory pointers explicitly. All the programs in
java are run under an area known as the sand box. Security
manager determines the accessibility options of a class like reading
and writing a file to the local disk. Java uses the public key
encryption system to allow the java applications to transmit over
the internet in the secure encrypted form. The byte code Verifier
checks the classes after loading.

Performance

Java uses native code usage, and lightweight process

called threads. In the beginning interpretation of byte code resulted
the performance slow but the advance version of JVM uses the
adaptive and just in time compilation technique that improves the
performance.

Multithreaded.

Java is also a multithreaded programming language.

Multithreading means a single program having different threads
executing independently at the same time. Multiple threads execute
instructions according to the program code in a process or a
program. Multithreading works the similar way as multiple
processes run on one computer.
Multithreading programming is a very interesting concept in Java.
In multithreaded programs not even a single thread disturbs the
execution of other thread. Threads are obtained from the pool of
available ready to run threads and they run on the system CPUs.
This is how Multithreading works in Java which you will soon
come to know in details in later chapters.

Interpreted

we all know that Java is an interpreted language as well. With an

interpreted language such as Java, programs run directly from the
source code.
The interpreter program reads the source code and translates it on
the fly into computations. Thus, Java as an interpreted language
depends on an interpreter program.
The versatility of being platform independent makes Java to
outshine from other languages. The source code to be written and
distributed is platform independent.
Another advantage of Java as an interpreted language is its error
debugging quality. Due to this any error occurring in the program
gets traced. This is how it is different to work with Java.

Architecture Neutral

The term architectural neutral seems to be weird, but yes Java is an

architectural neutral language as well. The growing popularity of
networks makes developers think distributed. In the world of
network it is essential that the applications must be able to migrate
easily to different computer systems. Not only to computer systems
but to a wide variety of hardware

architecture and operating system architectures as well. The Java

compiler does this by generating byte code instructions, to be
easily interpreted on any machine and to be easily translated into
native machine code on the fly. The compiler generates an
architecture-neutral object file format to enable a Java application
to execute anywhere on the network and then the compiled code is
executed on many processors, given the presence of the Java
runtime system. Hence Java was designed to support applications
on network. This feature of Java has thrived the programming
language.

ABOUT : JDK
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a Sun Microsystems product
aimed at Java developers. Since the introduction of Java, it has
been by far the most widely used Java SDK. On 17 November
2006, Sun announced that it would be released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), thus making it free software. This
happened in large part on 8 May 2007[1] and the source code was
contributed to the OpenJDK.

The primary components of the JDK are a selection of

programming tools, including:

• java – The loader for Java applications. This tool is an

interpreter and can interpret the class files generated by the
javac compiler. Now a single launcher is used for both
development and deployment. The old deployment launcher,
jre, is no longer provided with Sun JDK.
• javac – The compiler, which converts source code into Java
bytecode
• jar – The archiver, which packages related class libraries into
a single JAR file. This tool also helps manage JAR files.
• javadoc – The documentation generator, which automatically
generates documentation from source code comments
• jdb – The debugger
• javap – The class file disassembler
• appletviewer – This tool can be used to run and debug Java
applets without a web browser.
• javah – The C header and stub generator, used to write native
methods
• extcheck – This utility can detect JAR-file conflicts.
• apt – The annotation processing tool
• jhat – (Experimental) Java heap analysis tool
• jstack – (Experimental) This utility prints Java stack traces of
Java threads.
 • jstat – (Experimental) Java Virtual Machine statistics
monitoring tool
• jstatd – (Experimental) jstat daemon
• jinfo – (Experimental) This utility gets configuration
information from a running Java process or crash dump.
• jmap – (Experimental) This utility outputs the memory map
for Java and can print shared object memory maps or heap
memory details of a given process or core dump.
• idlj – The IDL-to-Java compiler. This utility generates Java
bindings from a given IDL file.
• policy tool – The policy creation and management tool,
which can determine policy for a Java runtime, specifying
which permissions are available for code from various
sources
• VisualVM – visual tool integrating several command line
JDK tools and lightweight performance and memory
profiling capabilities

The JDK also comes with a complete Java Runtime Environment,

usually called a private runtime. It consists of a Java Virtual
Machine and all of the class libraries that will be present in the
production environment, as well as additional libraries only useful
to developers, such as the internationalization libraries and the IDL
libraries.

Also included is a wide selection of example programs

demonstrating the use of almost all portions of the Java API.