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Features of Java

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Features of Java
applications

Sun Micro Systems officially


describes Java with the following
features
• Compiled and Interpreted
• Platform Independent and Portable
• Object Oriented
• Robust and Secure
• Distributed

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Features of Java
Contd..
applications

• Simple, Small and Familiar


• Multithreaded and Interactive
• High Performance
• Dynamic and Extensible

3
Compiled and Interpreted

• Usually a computer language is either


compiled or interpreted
• Java combines both these approaches,
thus making Java a two stage system
• First Java compiler translates source code
into byte code instructions
• Byte codes are not machine instructions

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Contd..

Compiled and Interpreted

• In the second stage Java interpreter


generates machine code

• That can be directly executed by the


machine

Fig. 2.1 Compiled and Interpreted

5
Platform Independent and
Portable
• The most significant feature of Java is its
portability

• Java programs can be easily moved from


one computer system to another ,
anywhere and at anytime

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Platform Independent and
Portable Contd..

• Changes and upgrades in


• Operating systems

• Processors

• System resources

will not force any changes in Java


programs

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Platform Independent and
Portable Contd..

Fig. 2.2 Once compiled, Java class file can be run on any platform

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Object Oriented
• Java is a true object oriented language
• Almost everything in Java is an object
• All programs code and data reside within
objects and classes
• Java comes with an extensive set of
classes arranged in packages

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Robust and Secure
• Java is a robust language

• It provides many safeguards to ensure


reliable code

• It has strict compile time and runtime for


data types

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Contd..
Robust and Secure

• It is designed as a garbage collected


language

• Java also provides concept of exception


handling which identifies errors and
eliminates

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Contd..
Robust and Secure

• Security becomes an important issue for a


language that is used for programming on
internet
• Threat of viruses and abuse of resources
• Java systems not only verify all memory
access, but also ensure that no viruses are
communicated with an applet

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Contd..
Robust and Secure

• The absence of pointers in Java ensures


that programs cannot gain access to
memory location without proper
initialization

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Distributed
• Java is designed as a distributed language
for creating applications on networks

• It has the ability to share both data and


programs

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Contd..
Distributed

• Java applications can open and access

remote object as easily as they can do in

a local system

• Enables multiple programmers at

multiple locations work together on a

single project
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Simple, Small and
Familiar
• Java is small and simple language. Many
features of C and C++ are not part of Java
eg. : Java does not provide
• Pointers

• Preprocessors header file

• goto statements

• Operator overloading

• Multiple inheritance

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Contd..
Simple, Small and Familiar

• Familiarity is another feature of Java

• It is modeled on C and C++ languages

• Java is a simplified version of C++

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Multithreaded and Interactive

• Multithreaded means handling


multiple tasks simultaneously
• Java supports multithreaded
programs
• Need not wait for the application to
finish one task before beginning
another
• Greatly improves the interactive
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High Performance

• Java performance is impressive for an


interpreted language
• Due to the use of intermediate byte code
• Java architecture is also designed to
reduce overheads during runtime
• The incorporation of multithreading
enhances the overall execution speed of
Java programs

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Dynamic and Extensible

• Java is a dynamic language


• Java is capable of dynamically linking
new
• Class libraries
• Methods
• Objects
• Java programs supports functions written
in other languages such as C and C++
• These functions are known as “native
methods”

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Contd..
Dynamic and Extensible

• This facility enables the programmers to


use the efficient available in these
languages

• Native methods are dynamically linked at


runtime

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