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Java vs Nonjava - What's the difference?

java | nonjava |

As a proper noun java

is java (an island of indonesia in the malay archipelago).

As an adjective nonjava is

(computing) that is not java or does not conform to the standards and expectations of java.

java

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • An island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
  • (computing) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
  • (computing, proscribed) JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.
  • * 1996' October 6, "Timothy Litwiller" (username), ''HOW TO MAKE A '''JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
  • * 1996 December 10, "Cédric Bouckaert" (username), onBlur event handler with input fields'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
    • In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java' alert which says that field two should have a value and then a '''java''' alert which says that field one should have a value and then a ' java ... get the picture ?
  • * 1997' January 7, "Kenneth Roddy" (username), '''''Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads'', in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows, ''Usenet
  • * 1997' February 18, "AG" (username), ''alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when '''java alert window opens'', in comp.lang.javascript, ''Usenet
    • I created an alert window using java' script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when ' java alert window opens.
  • * 2003' April 8, "mpaulopes" (username), ''Passing values to a '''Java popup windows'', in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion, ''Usenet

    • Usage notes

    * While referring to JavaScript as Java is technically incorrect, this usage occurs often enough to merit verifying which is meant in cases where it's not clear.

    Derived terms

    * Java cat (the musang) * Java sparrow * Javanese

    Related terms

    * JavaScript

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
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    nonjava

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (computing) That is not Java or does not conform to the standards and expectations of Java.
  • * 1998 , Journal of Object-oriented Programming
    • Additional items found on the CD include calling nonjava libraries from Java, and using the security API and developing JavaBeans components.
  • * 2000 , Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming
    • Since writeUTF uses a variant of UTF-8 that's subtly incompatible with most nonjava software...
  • * 2001 , Jason Hunter, William Crawford, Java Servlet Programming
    • Native code is also useful when accessing legacy data through nonjava gateways.
  • * 2002 , Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development
    • As the work of EJBs and other business objects often involves using nonjava resources such as databases...
  • * 2003 , Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java
    • Serialization is appropriate when saving data for nonjava programs to use.
  • * 2004 , Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference
    • ...and in corner cases they will not necessarily give the same results as implementations based on the JDK, let alone nonjava implementations.