Java design goals

• Simple - syntax like C, but easier.
• Secure - compile- and runtime-support for security.
• Distributed - built to run over networks.
• Object-oriented - designed from the ground-up to be object-oriented.
• Robust - strongly typed, memory management, exception handling.
• Portable - ``Write Once, Run Anywhere''. Runs on any platform with a JVM; Windows, Unix, Linux, Apple, AS/400, cell phones, desktop sets, ...
• Interpreted - Java bytecode is portable.
• Multithreaded - much easier to write multithreaded programs.
• Dynamic - classes are loaded as needed.
• High-performance - just-in-time compilers, advanced memory management makes Java programs faster.