Автор: James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy L. Steele Jr.
Название: The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Professional
Год: 2014
ISBN: 9780133900699
Серия: Java Series
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 6,7 mb
Страниц: 758

The Java programming language is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language. It is designed to be simple enough that many programmers can achieve fluency in the language. The Java programming language is related to C and C++ but is organized rather differently, with a number of aspects of C and C++ omitted and a few ideas from other languages included. It is intended to be a production language, not a research language, and so, as C. A. R. Hoare suggested in his classic paper' on language design, the design has avoided including new and untested features.

The Java programming language] is strongly and statically typed. This specification clearly distinguishes between the compile-time errors that can and must be detected at compile time, and those that occur at run time. Compile time normally consists of translating programs into a machine-independent byte code representation. Run-time activities include loading and linking of the classes needed to execute a program, optional machine code generation and dynamic optimization of the program, and actual program execution.

The Java programming language is normally compiled to the bytecode instruction set and binary format defined in The Java Virtual Machine Specification, Java SE 8 Edition.