One of the features of Java which Sun neglected to mention in its definition was Java's size-or lack of it. As a side effect of being simple, Java is a very small. Remember that one of the original goals of Java was to facilitate the construction of software...

You can make up whatever coffee metaphors you like, but there's no getting around the fact that Java is the most exciting thing to hit the Internet since the World Wide Web. That's because it fills a need-several needs, in fact. With Java, programmers...

Now that we've established the difference between a browser (HotJava, Netscape) and a programming language (Java), it's time to get down to what Java is. The folks who designed Java hoped to solve some of problems they saw in modern programming. As we...

by Alexander Newman In this chapter, we'll talk a little bit about what Java is, in general terms. Java is in many ways similar to program languages that have gone before it, but there are a few key differences. Fortunately, the fact that there's a standard...