Java characteristics / features / buzzwords

Java is Simple, High Level, Platform independent, Architecture-Neutral, Secure, Robust, Multi-threaded, Distributed and Object oriented programming language.

1. Simple: Java is easy to learn in comparison to C and C++ because most of the complex or confusing features of C and C++ like pointers, operator overloading are not provided in Java.
2. Secure: Java programs run within JVM which protects from unauthorized or illegal access to system resources.
3. Platform independent / Portable: Java program can be executed on any kind of machine containing any CPU or any operating system.
4. Architecture-neutral: Since Java applications on any kind of CPU so it is architecture neutral.
5. Robust: Java is robust because of following - 
1. Strong memory management
2. No pointers
3. Exception handling
4. Type checking mechanism
5. Platform independent
6. Multi-threaded: Java supports multi-threaded programming, which allows us to write programs that can do many things simultaneously.
7. Distributed: Using RMI and EJB, we can created distributed application in Java.
8. Object-oriented: Java follows object oriented programming model that helps to break the complex code into easy to understand objects.

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