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Glossary of Terms

Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) A collection of graphical user interface (GUI) components that were implemented using native-platform versions of the components. These components provide that subset of functionality which is common to all native platforms. Largely supplanted by the Project Swing component set. See also Swing Set. block In the Java(TM) programming language, any code between matching braces. Example: { x = 1; }. I.E. curly brackets boolean Refers to an expression or variable that can have only a true or false value. The Java(TM) programming language provides the boolean type and the literal values true and false. FCS First Customer Ship. The day in which a product is released/shipped to the customer. byte A sequence of eight bits. The Java(TM) programming language provides a corresponding byte type. SOURCE: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/information/glossary.html

Java - History

Devloped by Gosland in the early 1990s Why “Oak”? Gosling named it oak after an oak tree that was located outside his office. Oak is an image of solidarity and picked as a national tree of numerous nations like the U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania, etc. But they had to later rename it as “JAVA” as it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies. Named after the coffee. SOURCE: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/the-complete-history-of-java-programming-language/ SOURCE: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/the-complete-history-of-java-programming-language/