Java

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Contents 1 Java 1.1 Implementations 1.2 J2EE Implementations 1.3 Other Stuff 1.4 Toronto Resources

Java

Java (see also Wikipedia:Java_(programming_language)) is an object-oriented computer language created by Sun Microsystems that usually compiles into somewhat platform-independent bytecode. It is frequently used for web-based server applications, and there are numerous tools and frameworks available for it, including:

Implementations

• Sun Java
• GCJ (GCC Project Java compiler) - which also can compile into platform-specific machine code
• Kaffe
• Jikes - IBM-created compiler and JVM

J2EE Implementations

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a platform that adds additional libraries to help deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier Java software. There are numerous commercial implementations from companies like Sun, IBM, BEA, but also several "open source" ones too:

• JBoss
• Apache Geronimo
• JOnAS

Other Stuff

• Eclipse is an IDE written in and for Java that has many, many extension modules available.

Toronto Resources

There have been several TLUG meetings on Java over the years:

• Meetings:1995-12
• Meetings:2002-10