 Java is a programming language and a platform.

 Java is a high level, robust, object-oriented and secure

programming language.
 Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now
the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995.
 Java is platform-independent that means java code can
be compiled on any operating system and made to run
on the same or any other operating system.
 Java supports concurrency which means the code can
be executed by multiple processes at the same time.
 Java is class-based and object-oriented.
 Simplicity: Java was developed keeping in mind the
complexities in other programming languages like C or
C++.
 Portability: As already covered java source code can be
developed and compiled on one machine and can be
made to run on the same or any other operating system.
 Object-Oriented: In java, everything is treated as an
object and all the operations involved in application
development are completed using these objects.
 Dynamic Capability: Applications developed using java
can adapt them to changing execution environment.
 High Security: In terms of security java is operated on
byte code which is not readable in nature. It runs source
code inside a secured sandbox and does not allow any
external intervention.
 Robust: Java is developed keeping in mind all
possibilities, and therefore there is no existence of the
error.
 Multithreading: Java supports creating multiple threads
for execution thus providing high performance.
 Interpreted: The code is converted into byte code which
in turn is interpreted by java run time environment.
 Performance: Java provides high performance as it
makes use of byte code which can be translated into
machine code with ease and with high speed.
 Banking and Financial Domain : Banking domain makes
use of java for handling transactions. It performs
exceptionally well while handling millions of transactions in
an efficient way.

 Web Application Development : This refers to website

development. In web application development java
provides server-side technologies that receive data from
front end user interfaces and provide data to back end
logical processing layer and after processing data is
returned to front end through these server-side
technologies.
 Gaming Applications: It has the support of one of the
most popular 3D-Engine,which can be used to design
three-dimensional games.
 Android Application Development: Java is also used
for the development of android applications. Android
applications are developed using java API.
 Desktop Applications: It is also used to develop
standalone desktop applications. It has Abstract
Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to allow GUI development.
 Big Data: Map-reduce framework for handling big data
processing is written in java.
 Cloud Applications: It provides features that can be
used to build applications used in Saas, Paas and Iaas
cloud development.
 Desktop GUI Application :
The desktop application can easily develop in Java, to
support this java provides AWT, Swings, and JavaFX.
 Scientific Application :
Java supports to scientific application development,
because of its security powerful, robustness features, much
scientific application based on Java technology
like MATLAB.
 Enterprise Applications :
For Enterprise application development Java is the first
choice because of its powerful features that match the
requirement
 Web Applications :
Java used to develop web application also to support
the java has provided JSP, Servlet, Struts, Spring,
hibernate. With the help of the technologies, we can
easily develop any kind of web application based on
customer requirements.
 Mobile Applications :
A mobile application can easily be developed with help
of java. In Today’s world, every second phone has an
android OS which is based on Java.
 Code :
class Simple
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("Hello Java");
}
}
 Output :
“Hello Java”
 To compile :
javac Simple.java
 To execute :
java Simple
 To save file :
.java extension is used.
 class keyword is used to declare a class in java.
 public keyword is an access modifier which represents
visibility. It means it is visible to all.
 static is a keyword. If we declare any method as static,
it is known as the static method. The core advantage of
the static method is that there is no need to create an
object to invoke the static method. The main method is
executed by the JVM, so it doesn't require to create an
object to invoke the main method. So it saves memory.
 void is the return type of the method. It means it doesn't
return any value.
 main represents the starting point of the program.
 String[] args is used for command line argument. We
will learn it later.
 System.out.println() is used to print statement. Here,
System is a class, out is the object of PrintStream class,
println() is the method of PrintStream class.