This page teaches you about some of Java's basic syntax. For more information, see Sun Microsystems' official Java web site.
Java is a powerful, multi-platform programming language. It will also soon be a free and open-source language. James Gosling, one of Java's creators, has this to say about the Java source code:
"The source code is being open sourced, but the process of defining the spec is still the Java Community Process."
-- James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems
A Java program is written in 3 steps:
A program contains println
statements to produce output:
public class name { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("message"); System.out.println("message"); } }