Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and ...

Maximizing code reuse in your Java programs means writing code that is easy to read, ... In extreme cases, I’ve seen teams throw away the whole application and start fresh with new code.

Java applets fuelled Java’s initial growth. The ability to download code over the network and run it on a variety of desktops offering a rich user interaction proved quite compelling. However ...