Java

An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.

Proper noun

  1. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
  2. An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
    • The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking. - 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second...
  3. JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
    • In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two...
    • I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens. - 1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling...

Origin

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

Hyponyms

Java EE Java ME Java SE

Derived

Blue Java Java black rot Java canvas Java cat Java mouse-deer Javanese Java peacock Java pepper Java plum Java sparrow AspectJ Hyper/J JavaFX JavaScript

Noun

  1. A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.

Forms

Javas