Distributed and Network Oriented

Distributed and Network Oriented

Java grew up in the days of the Internet

Inherently network friendly

Original release of Java came with Networking libraries

Newer releases contain even more for handling distributed

applications

RMI, Transactions

Multithreaded and Interactive

Handles multiple tasks simultaneously.

Java runtime system contains tools to support multiprocess

synchronization and construct smoothly running interactive

systems.

High Performance

Java performance is slower than C

Provisions are added to reduce overhead at runtime.

Incorporation of multithreading enhance the overall execution

speed.

Just-in-Time (JIT) can compile the byte code into machine code.

Can sometimes be even faster than compiled C code!.

Dynamic

Capable of dynamically linking a new class libraries, methods and

objects.

Java can use efficient functions available in C/C++.

Installing new version of library automatically updates all

programs.