What is Java?
A search on ‘What is Java’ in google returns roughly about 329,000,000 pages. That is the popularity of Java on the web. If you haven’t read the history of Java please read it first here. Java was just meant to be a portable, platform independent programming language. But over the years it has transformed into a complex platform for computing portable software across different devices and systems
What is the need for Java?
When there were so many programming languages already available what was the need for another programming language.
To understand this let us take an example of a program that runs on a SONY TV remote control. This program can be written using a language (let us assume) called X. The remote control has an in-built chip on which this program...