Java was initiated in 1991 and first released in 1995. It has since had major releases approximately every 2-3 years, with the most recent being Java SE 7 in 2011. Java is described as being simple, secure, portable, object-oriented, robust, multithreaded, architecture-neutral, interpreted, high performance, and distributed. It is both interpreted and compiled, with code compiled to bytecode that is platform independent and then interpreted on the user's machine for execution.
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Java Intro
Java was initiated in 1991 and first released in 1995. It has since had major releases approximately every 2-3 years, with the most recent being Java SE 7 in 2011. Java is described as being simple, secure, portable, object-oriented, robust, multithreaded, architecture-neutral, interpreted, high performance, and distributed. It is both interpreted and compiled, with code compiled to bytecode that is platform independent and then interpreted on the user's machine for execution.
Code is compiled to byte code that is binary and platform independent. When program has to be executed, the code is fetched into the memory and interpreted on users machine. When we compile a piece of code, all the errors are listed together. An interpreter verifies the code and executes it line by line. Compilation is process of converting the code that you type, into language that computer understandsmachine language.