Important features of the Java language

• Strongly typed

  • security control

• Object-oriented

  • everything is a class
  • like Smalltalk (not like C++)

• Multi-threaded

  • parallelism

• Garbage Collection

  • no malloc/free

• No Pointers

  • symbolic reference

• Exception Handling

• Dynamic Linking

  • no link phase

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