Objective
- It is a platform and an object-oriented programming language.
- It was originally designed by Sun Microsystems for consumer electronics, and now owned by Oracle Corporation in 2010.
- Contains a class library.
- Uses a virtual machine for program execution.
Platform: An environment in which a program executes, known as a platform. Since Java has its own runtime environment (JRE), it is called platform.
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