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JAVA DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW


Prepared by: Ms. Jullie Ann M. Ocampo
JAVA HISTORY

❑Created in 1991 by James Gosling of Sun


Microsystems
❑Originally named Oak, which was the tree
outside James Gosling’s window
❑May 23, 1995: Sun Microsystems releases
its first official version of the Java
programming language

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What is JAVA?
▪ Is an application development program
providing a simple. OOP (Object-Oriented
Programming) language
▪ Java is a great general-purpose
programming language
▪ Is an application development platform

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JDK (Java Development Kit)
Contains tools you need to be able to write Java
applications
Tool Description
javac Java compiler
java Launcher for java applications
javadoc API documentation generator
appletviewer Run and debug applets w/o a web
browser
jar Create and manage Java Archive
(JAR) files
jdb Java Debugger 4

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