What java actually is? Java is a general purpose programming language , much like Python or JavaScript. The language itself is specifically an object oriented programming language , so bears similarities to C++, C#. Java is also a platform, which means that Java code can run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on it. Originally those two things were interchangeable, and the only thing that ran on the JVM was Java. But since that time, a number of languages have been written which can run on the Java platform, languages like Scala, Groovy, an implementation of Ruby called jRuby, and an implementation of Python called Jython. WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF JAVA? Java was created by a team at Sun Microsystems, was released in 1995 and was subsequently acquired by Oracle. A primary goal of the Java creators was to develop a language that could run on consumer appliances – so the designers were already contemplating a world in whic...
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