The origin and advantages of the name Java

The history of the Java language is rich and colorful, and is now widely used by many programmers and enterprises, there is no doubt that this is the result of Java's leading technology.

Java is a programming language developed by Sun company. The initial direction of Sun company is to let Java to develop some electrical device programs, such as: set-top box, bus card. Sun company never thought Java would attract so much attention from enterprises, so it continues to expand to the direction of network programming.

The origin of Java's name is actually an interesting story.

The Java logo we see is always a cup of hot coffee, which you can hardly associate with computer programming. This cup of hot coffee, Java the origin of the name, is one of the members of the Java founding personnel team because of the inspiration thought, think of yourself in Java island (Java) had a delicious coffee drink, so a name to this computer programming language is Java, and scale up at the same time it is our most familiar but a cup of hot coffee.

The advantage of Java

1. Cross-platform, as long as there is a JVM operating system can run Java programs;
2. Security; 1. Discard the danger pointer;
2. Automatic internal management mechanism and garbage collection mechanism, which are collected by garbage collector, reduce the program burden and avoid the danger of manual collection;

3. Fully object-oriented;
4. Simple, cancel a lot of practical parts in C++, easy to use, provide a large number of class libraries;
5. Robustness: mandatory type mechanism, exception handling mechanism, automatic garbage collection.