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What is Java?

• Platform independent language - Java code and the compiled byte code was designed to be platform independent. Since they wanted Java to be coded such that it is not dependent on the physical machine, all platform independent code was put into the JVM. So since

• Imperative and object-oriented language

• Simple

• Robust and secure language

Java is a compiled and interpreted language that is simple, strongly typed and case sensitive.

Features of Java

• It has inbuilt garbage collection functionality
• No pointers
• Multi-Threading
• Auto type checking