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1. (n.) Java
the main island of Indonesia. 91,269,528 (with Madura); 51,032 sq. mi. (132,173 sq. km).
2. Java
(usu. l.c.) Slang. coffee:
a cup of java.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Java
an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
2. (noun) coffee, java
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
"he ordered a cup of coffee"
3. (noun) Java
a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) java
one of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands
2. (noun) java
java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. java
the finest island of the Indian Archipelago, lying between Sumatra and Bali, with the Indian Ocean on the S. and the Java Sea separating it from Borneo on the N., lies E. and W., traversed by a mountain chain with a rich alluvial plain on the N.; there are many volcanoes; the climate is hot, and on the coast unhealthy; the mountains are densely wooded, and the teak forests are valuable; the plain is fertile; coffee, tea, sugar, indigo, and tobacco are grown and exported; all kinds of manufactured goods, wine, spirits, and provisions are imported; the natives are Malays, more civilised than on neighbouring islands; there are 240,000 Chinese, many Europeans and Arabs; the island is nearly as large as England, and belongs to Holland; the chief towns are Batavia (105) and Samarang (70), both on the N.
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. java
An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James
Gosling (and known by the name “Oak”) with the intention of
being the successor to C++ (the project was however
originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in set-top boxes).
After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a
byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a relentless hype
campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of choice for
distributed applications.Java is indeed a stronger and cleaner design than C++ and has been
embraced by many in the hacker community — but it has been a
considerable source of frustration to many others, for reasons ranging from
uneven support on different Web browser platforms, performance issues, and
some notorious deficiencies in some of the standard toolkits (AWT in
particular). Microsoft's determined attempts to
corrupt the language (which it rightly sees as a threat to its OS monopoly)
have not helped. As of 2003, these issues are still in the process of
being resolved. Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult
to find people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a
complex, real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet,
and no other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the
limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already been a
big win in academic circles, where it has taken the
place of Pascal as the preferred tool for teaching
the basics of good programming to the next generation of hackers.
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