JAVA FEATURES

The inventors of Java wanted to design a language which could offer
solutions to some of the problems encountered in modern programming
They wanted the language to be not only reliable,portable and
distributed but also simple,compact and interactive.Sum Microsystems
officially describes Java with the following features:

1. Compiled and Interpreted
   
2. Platform-Independent and portable
   
3. Object-oriented
   
4. Robust and Secure
   
5. Distributed
   
6. Familiar,simple and small
   
7. Multithreaded and Interactive
   
8. High perfomance
   
9. Ease of development
   
10. Scalability and Performance
    
11. Monitoring and Manageability
    
12. Desktop Client
    
13. core XML support
    
14. Supplementary character support
    
15. JDBC row set