subject: Facts About Java Website Development [print this page] Java is a better quality language for building web applications. It is much like C# or Visual Basic; however, its performance is outside imagination. Its best feature is portability, which makes it the preferred choice for most web application developers. Portability allows it to run across any operating system. It means that when you choose Java web application development, the end-product will be eligible to run across Windows PC, Mac or a Unix Workstation. This makes Java preferable for most web application development projects. It runs with support of Java Virtual Machine (JVM). So any device installed with JVM will also have the capability to run Java web applications.
What can Java do for Websites?
Choosing Java website development opens up doors to a whole new world of interactive possibilities and scopes. Java is ideal for developing variety of web apps, such as calculators for loans and mortgages, embedded online games, real-time chat applications, forms and database processing, maps with interactive features, financial applications for corporate, real-time display for industries and tons of others.
Understanding Java structure
Java language is made of three programs that one can write. Here are the summaries of these three programs.
Application A Java Application is independent application. It runs on system without the need of network or internet.
Servlet: Servlet is also a Java application, but it is built to run on server-end for processing internet and network requests from client computers. Servlet typically process information thus does not use a graphical user interface.
Applet It is built to run in an internet browser to present graphical user interface to users. This type of application talks to Servlet for extracting data from database and show up them on browser.
Fact about Java
More than 3 billion devices run Java. These devices include computers, printers, routers, cell phones, Blackberry devices, Kindle Fire Tablet, parking meters, public transportation, passes, ATMs, credit cards, home security systems, cable boxes, TVs and others.
Internet and Java
Java is portable and this feature has made it a preferred language for developing application for internet. Java runs inside the JVM and it gets downloaded when the computer runs a Java application for the very first time. Once Java Virtual Machine is installed, it supports any website running Java based web apps.
Java Technologies Used in Web Applications
Java Servlet API
JavaServer Pages Technology
JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library
JavaServer Faces Technology
Java Message Service API
JavaMail API and the JavaBeans Activation Framework
