JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT

Java is a general purpose , object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems of USA in 1991.It was designed for the software development purpose.The most important feature of the language is that it is a platform neutral language.

Java is the first programming language that is not tied to any particular hardware or Operating System.Java environment includes a large number of development tools and hundreds of classes and methods.

The JAVA development kit comes with a collection of tools that are used for developing and running java programs.They include:

• appletviewer (for viewing Java Applets)
  
• javac (Java Compiler)
  
• java (Java Interpreter)
  
• javap (Java disassembler)