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Java is a programming language and development environment created by Sun Microsystems and launched in 1995. It took the computer industry by storm as a new platform and programming language for building object-oriented component-based applications.

This topic continues in "The Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications" with a discussion of the following:

Java's applets and components
Java VM (virtual machine)
JavaOS
Jini
JavaBeans, components, containers, and scripting
InfoBus
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Java component communication methods

RMI (Remote Method Invocation)

JMS (Java Messaging Service)

IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol)

XML (Extensible Markup Language)