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Java Tutorial

Our core Java programming tutorial is designed for students and working professionals. Java is an object-oriented, class-
based, concurrent, secured and general-purpose computer-programming language. It is a widely used robust technology.

What is Java
Java is a programming language and a platform. Java is a high level, robust, object-oriented and secure programming
language.

Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995. James Gosling is known as
the father of Java. Before Java, its name was Oak. Since Oak was already a registered company, so James Gosling and his
team changed the Oak name to Java.

Platform: Any hardware or software environment in which a program runs, is known as a platform. Since Java has a runtime
environment (JRE) and API, it is called a platform.

Java Example

Let's have a quick look at Java programming example. A detailed description of Hello Java example is available in next page.

class Simple{

public static void main(String args[]){

System.out.println("Hello Java");

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Application
According to Sun, 3 billion devices run Java. There are many devices where Java is currently used. Some of them are as
follows:

1. Desktop Applications such as acrobat reader, media player, antivirus, etc.

2. Web Applications such as irctc.co.in, javatpoint.com, etc.

3. Enterprise Applications such as banking applications.

4. Mobile

5. Embedded System

6. Smart Card

7. Robotics

8. Games, etc.

Types of Java Applications

There are mainly 4 types of applications that can be created using Java programming:

1) Standalone Application

Standalone applications are also known as desktop applications or window-based applications. These are traditional software
that we need to install on every machine. Examples of standalone application are Media player, antivirus, etc. AWT and Swing
are used in Java for creating standalone applications.

2) Web Application

An application that runs on the server side and creates a dynamic page is called a web application. Currently, Servlet, JSP,
Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, etc. technologies are used for creating web applications in Java.

3) Enterprise Application

An application that is distributed in nature, such as banking applications, etc. is called enterprise application. It has
advantages of the high-level security, load balancing, and clustering. In Java, EJB is used for creating enterprise applications.

4) Mobile Application

An application which is created for mobile devices is called a mobile application. Currently, Android and Java ME are used for
creating mobile applications.

Java Platforms / Editions

There are 4 platforms or editions of Java:

1) Java SE (Java Standard Edition)

It is a Java programming platform. It includes Java programming APIs such as java.lang, java.io, java.net, java.util, java.sql,
java.math etc. It includes core topics like OOPs, String, Regex, Exception, Inner classes, Multithreading, I/O Stream,
Networking, AWT, Swing, Reflection, Collection, etc.

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2) Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition)

It is an enterprise platform which is mainly used to develop web and enterprise applications. It is built on the top of the Java
SE platform. It includes topics like Servlet, JSP, Web Services, EJB, JPA, etc.

3) Java ME (Java Micro Edition)

It is a micro platform which is mainly used to develop mobile applications.

4) JavaFX

It is used to develop rich internet applications. It uses a light-weight user interface API.

Prerequisite
To learn Java, you must have the basic knowledge of C/C++ programming language.

Audience
Our Java programming tutorial is designed to help beginners and professionals.

Problem
We assure that you will not find any problem in this Java tutorial. However, if there is any mistake, please post the problem in
the contact form.

Do You Know?

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Hello Java Program

Program Internal

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Difference between JDK,JRE and JVM

Internal Details of JVM

Variable and Data Type

Unicode System

Operators

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