From the mind of an unknown HUMAN!!!
2006-06-08 02:47:22
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answered by SuRGe 3
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the language was renamed Java after a trademark search revealed that the name "Oak" was used by a manufacturer of video adaptor cards (Oak Technology). The name Java was coined at a local coffee shop frequented by some of the members. It is not clear whether the name is an acronym or not; although some accounts claim that it stands for the names of James Gosling, Arthur Van Hoff, and Andy Bechtolsheim, or Just Another Vague Acronym, it is generally accepted that "Java" does not stand for anything. Lending credence to the idea that Java owes its name to the products sold at the coffee shop is the fact that the first 4 bytes (the so-called "Magic number") of any class file are, in hexadecimal, 0xCAFEBABE.
Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems (the Java⢠technology) that together provide a system for developing and deploying cross-platform applications. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devices and cell phones on the low end to enterprise servers and super computers on the high end. Java is fairly ubiquitous in cell phones, Web servers and enterprise applications, and somewhat less common in desktop applications, though most users will have come across Java applets when browsing the web.
For years, Sun Microsystems referred to Java as the "Java technology" but has used the word "Java" as an adjective about the technology. In practice, many programmers have used the word "Java" to mean the programming language, while the execution platform was called the "JRE" (Java Runtime Environment) and the compiler-system was called the "JDK" (Java Development Kit), rather than a "Java compiler" as such. The word "Java" has often been used as an adjective, but the formal term "Java technology" should be noted (see history below).
2006-06-08 09:44:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Indonesia. They have an island called Java where the famous coffee comes from.
Java - programming language was originally called "D", but the programming team at Sun had to look for a substitute name. "Java" was selected from a list of suggestions, primarily because it is a popular slang term for coffee, especially that grown on the island of Java. As the programmers drank a lot of coffee, this seemed an appropriate name.
2006-06-08 09:43:42
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answered by estee06 5
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JAVA means coffee asn programmers used to drink lots of coffee while working over the coding ...of JAVA..
Java is under SUN ( Stanford University Network ) Network
visit SUN.com webiste or Java.com
2006-06-08 09:43:12
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answered by sanjubuddy 4
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