The Java Programming Language is a general-purpose, concurrent, strongly typed, class-based object-oriented language. It is normally compiled to the bytecode instruction set and binary format defined in the Java Virtual Machine Specification.

Tutorials and Programmer's Guides

• The Java Tutorial

API Enhancements

• Enhancements in JDK 5
• Enhancements in JDK v1.4

More Information

• Java Language Specification
• Generics by Gilad Bracha.

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