(Computers) A simple platform-independent object-oriented programming language used for writing applets that are downloaded from the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client's machine.
Java is a network-friendly programming language invented by Sun Microsystems. Java is often used to build large, complex systems that involve several different computers interacting across networks, for example transaction processing systems. Java is also becoming popular for creating programs that run in small electronic devicws, such as mobile telephones. A very common use of Java is to create programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the Internet and immediately run without fear of viruses or other harm to your computer or files. Using small Java programs (called Applets), Web pages can include functions such as animations,calculators, and other fancy tricks.
An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Similar to C++, Java is smaller, more portable, and easier to use than C++ because it is more robust and it manages memory on its own. Java was also designed to be secure and platform-neutral (meaning that it can be run on any platform) through the fact that Java programs are compiled into bytecode, which is not refined to the point of relying on platform-specific instructions and runs on a computer in a special software environment known as a virtual machine. This characteristic of Java makes it a useful language for programming Web applications, since users access the Web from many types of computers. Java is used in programming small applications, or applets, for the World Wide Web, as well as in creating distributed network applications. See also bytecode, Java applet, Jini, object-oriented programming.

(Slang) Coffee.

1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands; an island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
3. City in South Dakota (USA); zip code 57452.
Or Jawa; Most important island of Indonesia, situated between Sumatra and Bali.
area (with the island of Madura) 132,000 sq km/51,000 sq mi.
capital Jakarta (also capital of Indonesia).
towns ports include Surabaya and Semarang.
physical about half the island is under cultivation, the rest being thickly forested. Mountains and sea breezes keep temperatures down, but humidity is high, with heavy rainfall from Dec to March.
features a chain of mountains, some of which are volcanic, runs along the center, rising to 2,750 m/9,000 ft. The highest mountain, Semeru (3,676 m/12,060 ft), is in the E.
industries rice, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar, rubber, quinine, teak, petroleum.
population (with Madura; 1989) 107,513,800, including people of Javanese, Sundanese, and Madurese origin, with differing languages.
religion predominantly Muslim.
history fossilized early human remains (Homo erectus) were discovered 1891–92. In central Java there are ruins of magnificent Buddhist monuments and of the Sivaite temple in Prambanan. The island’s last Hindu kingdom, Majapahit, was destroyed about 1520 and followed by a number of short-lived Javanese kingdoms. The Dutch East India company founded a factory 1610. Britain took over during the Napoleonic period, 1811–16, and Java then reverted to Dutch control. Occupied by Japan 1942–45, Java then became part of the republic of Indonesia.