A hello world application in java

Hello world program is a cross platform chapter. So lets have a try in Java.

public class HelloWorld {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       System.out.println("Hello, world");
   }
}

why to choose java

What is java?

Java is a programming language and computing platform invented by some engineers (I call them intelligent monkey’s) working Sun Microsystems in 1995. It was originally designed for use on digital mobile devices, such as cell phones. However, when Java 1.0 was released to the public in 1996, its main focus had shifted to use on the Internet. Over the years it has evolved as a successful language for use both web based and desktop based application. Today there are about 6.5 million java developer worldwide.

Check out to discover some of the amazing ways that Java technology is involved in your life.
http://www.java.com/en/java_in_action/

why we choose Java

Java is a high level object oriented language that looks a lot like C and C++. Java is very easy to learn. lets check a list for choosing java-

1. Excellent IDE: java provides some excellent IDE like eclipse, NetBeans, IntellJidea etc
2. Cross-platform Desktop Application, even with sophisticated GUI.
3. Huge amount of documentation available.
4. Large pool of developers available
5. Automatic garbage collector
6. No direct pointer
7. Excellent performance and excellent specification.
8. very good open source community with huge amount of libraries
9. very good, well-thought out exception handliing
10. Its portable
11. Java is very much secured
12. Java is flexible enough and does graphics, desktop GUIs, web user interfaces - all kinds of things in all kinds of runtime environments

I think, there are lots of reason yet to mention.