Java is a programming language that is object-oriented.

Advantages of building applications in JAVA

• A program once written in JAVA can be run anywhere and means that no efforts need to be put into developing a different version of software for each platform
• Java is Distributed
• Java is Interpreted
• Java is Dynamic
• Java is one of the first programming languages to consider security as part of its design
• Java has a very reliable framework
• Java eliminates certain types of programming constructs in other languages that are prone to errors
• The most remarkable feature of Java is that it is architecture neutral