Java
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/
enpr: jäʹ-və
rhymes: -ɑːvə
homophone: java
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
examples: ref: 1996 October 6, Timothy Litwiller, “HOW TO MAKE A JAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
text: 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 ?
ref: 1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
ref: 1997 January 7, Kenneth Roddy, “Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads”, in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows (Usenet):
text: 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.
ref: 1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
ref: 2003 April 8, mpaulopes, “Passing values to a Java popup windows”, in macromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion (Usenet):
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
Hyponyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Java EE
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Java ME
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Java SE
Meronyms: sense: island
word: Banten
sense: island
word: Central Java
sense: island
word: East Java
sense: island
word: Jakarta
sense: island
word: West Java
sense: island
word: Yogyakarta
Derived terms: word: Blue Java
word: Java black rot
word: Java canvas
word: Java cat
word: Java mouse-deer
word: Javanese
word: Java pepper
word: Java sparrow
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: AspectJ
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Hyper/J
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: JavaFX
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: JavaScript