Java SE 7

Getting Started with Java SE 7


• What Java is
• The object-oriented development process
• Types of Java applications
• The creation of a simple program
• The definition of classes and interfaces
• Java Application Development
• Java environment
• Java documentation techniques
• The use of annotations in Java
• The core Java packages


Understanding Java as a technology

- Sun Microsystems developed the original specifications for the language in the
mid 1990s.

- Java is a full-fledged object-oriented programming language.

- Java supports many features that, at its time of conception, were not found directly
in other languages such as:
---- threading,
---- networking,
---- security, and
---- Graphical User Interface (GUI) development.

- Java uses an independent bytecode that is architecture neutral.
----Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Object-oriented software development
- This approach models an application around a series of real world objects, such as an employee or a ship.
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