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What Is Java: Platform: Any Hardware or Software Environment in Which A Program Runs, Is Known As A

Java is a high-level, robust, secured, and object-oriented programming language that runs on a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) platform, providing an application programming interface (API). It was created in 1991 by James Gosling and a team at Sun Microsystems and includes local variables declared in methods, instance variables declared in classes but not static, and static variables that are not local.

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What Is Java: Platform: Any Hardware or Software Environment in Which A Program Runs, Is Known As A

Java is a high-level, robust, secured, and object-oriented programming language that runs on a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) platform, providing an application programming interface (API). It was created in 1991 by James Gosling and a team at Sun Microsystems and includes local variables declared in methods, instance variables declared in classes but not static, and static variables that are not local.

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What is Java

Java is a programming language and a platform.

Java is a high level, robust, secured and object-oriented programming language.

Platform: Any hardware or software environment in which a program runs, is known as a


platform. Since Java has its own runtime environment (JRE) and API, it is called platform.

1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in
June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.

1) Local Variable
A variable which is declared inside the method is called local variable.

2) Instance Variable
A variable which is declared inside the class but outside the method, is called instance variable .
It is not declared as static.

3) Static variable
A variable that is declared as static is called static variable. It cannot be local.

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