Chapter 1. Viva Java
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Why Java? Java was described in the original 1991 white paper as a “simple, object-oriented, network-savvy, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.”
It has also been described, somewhat facetiously, as having the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk!
In essence, Java is a language, a standard, and a platform. This, perhaps, makes a fair comparison with other languages difficult because many architectural decisions in Java reflect concerns that are totally absent in other languages.
Figure 1.1 shows an architectural view of the Java ...
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