Sunday, 26 May 2013

Java - The Platform


Java has a large API (application programming interface) covering a wide range of areas The following list of Java APIs and applications from Sun show the range of applications of Java . For reference http://java.sun.com/products/index.html
Java Foundation Classes (JFC) - GUI
JDBC Database Access
JavaBeans - componentware
Java Web Server
EmbeddedJava - Java on embedded devices


JAVA IDE
Using JDK you can compile and run java program from command line.
 javac HelloWorld. java  - compiling here and it will produce HelloWorld.class i.e. bytecode.
java HelloWorld  - It runs java byte code on native machine
Creating, Compiling, Debugging and Execution for these four steps JDK is not user friendly. IDE is provided for that. A list of IDEs are:
 Eclipse  - from IBM
 Netbeans.

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