M any of your questions may be answered in OIT's Knowledge Base of FAQs . OIT's InfoTech Handbook for faculty or students . S end e-mail to the Help Desk. Java is general-purpose programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
Applications are stand alone programs, like any program written using high-level language.
Java programs that run from web browser are called applets. The same Java program works on every kind of computer. Well, Javascript is a scripting language that can manipulate many HTML elements and be embedded in a webpage and interpreted as the page is loaded. Java is a general-purpose programming language that relatively isolated from the webpage in which it is embedded and will be executed after page is loaded. Fortunately, we can call Java from JavaScript and can access Javascript from Java.