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Definition of Java

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Definition: Java is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. It has been very successful in both the Enterprise business world and on mobile phones.

Java compiles to bytecode which is portable to any computer that supports a JVM (Java Virtual Machine.

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