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The Java programming language and Java software platform have been criticized for design choices including the implementation of generics, forced object-oriented programming, the handling of unsigned numbers, the implementation of floating-point arithmetic, and a history of security vulnerabilities in the primary Java VM implementation, HotSpot.
Java 5 Update 5 (1.5.0_05) is the last release of Java to work on Windows 95 (with Internet Explorer 5.5 installed) and Windows NT 4.0. [36] Java 5 was first available on Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) [37] and was the default version of Java installed on Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Public support and security updates for Java 1.5 ended in ...
GCJ notably caused a bad user experience for Java on free software supporting distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu which shipped GCJ at the time as their Java implementation. How to replace GCJ with the Sun JDK was a frequently asked question by users, because GCJ was an incomplete implementation, incompatible and buggy.
The java.nio.file package and its related package, java.nio.file.attribute, provide comprehensive support for file I/O and for accessing the file system. A zip file system provider is also available in JDK 7. The java.nio.file.LinkOption is an example of emulating extensible enums with interfaces. [6]
Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language.It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (), [16] meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. [17]
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). [2] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006, four years before the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
Installing a Java application by default pulls in IcedTea instead of oracle-jdk because it can be installed without extra work from the user, as users have to manually agree to Oracle's EULA to download the oracle-jdk. IcedTea is available in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), from the "universe" repository, [43] and IcedTea6 in 8.04 (Hardy Heron). [44]
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a distribution of Java technology by Oracle Corporation. It implements the Java Language Specification ( JLS ) and the Java Virtual Machine Specification ( JVMS ) and provides the Standard Edition ( SE ) of the Java Application Programming Interface ( API ).