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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Java \Ja"va\ (j[aum]"v[.a]), n. 1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands. [1913 Webster] 2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java. [1913 Webster] 3. (Computers) [all capitals] an object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from {C++}, used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving. [GG + PJC] {Java cat} (Zool.), the musang. {Java sparrow} (Zool.), a species of finch ({Padda oryzivora}), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also {ricebird}, and {paddy bird}. In the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also kept as a cage bird. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: higher programming language \higher programming language\ n. (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions. Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as {BASIC}, {FORTRAN}, {COBOL}, {C}, {C++}, {PROLOG}, or {JAVA}. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: Java n 1: an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions 2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: {coffee}, {java}] 3: a platform-independent object-oriented programming language From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: Java An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling (and known by the name ?Oak?) with the intention of being the successor to {C++} (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in set-top boxes). After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of choice for distributed applications. Java is indeed a stronger and cleaner design than C++ and has been embraced by many in the hacker community ? but it has been a considerable source of frustration to many others, for reasons ranging from uneven support on different Web browser platforms, performance issues, and some notorious deficiencies in some of the standard toolkits (AWT in particular). {Microsoft}'s determined attempts to corrupt the language (which it rightly sees as a threat to its OS monopoly) have not helped. As of 2003, these issues are still in the process of being resolved. Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to find people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a complex, real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet, and no other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already been a big {win} in academic circles, where it has taken the place of {Pascal} as the preferred tool for teaching the basics of good programming to the next generation of hackers. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: Java /ʒava/ Java From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]: Java Java From Spanish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-spa-eng]: Java Java(Javo) From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: Java /java/ Java