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A platform-independent programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. Objectoriented programming language developed at Sun Microsystems to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice. The Java language is used extensively on the World Wide Web, particularly for applets.


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Microsoft’s component object model (COM) technology used in web applications. ActiveX is implemented using any one of a variety of languages, including Visual Basic, C, C++, and Java. Microsoft’s Windowsspecific nonJava technique for writing applets. ActiveX applets take considerably longer to download than the equivalent Java applets; however, they more fully exploit the features of Windows.
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A distributed file system developed by Sun Microsystems that allows a set of computers to cooperatively access each other’s files in a transparent manner.
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A requesthandling mechanism that selects a method based on the type of target object. This allows the specification of one request that can result in invocation of different methods depending on the type of the target object. Most objectoriented languages support the selection of the appropriate method based on the class of the object (classical polymorphism). A few languages or systems support characteristics of the object, including values and userdefined defaults (generalized polymorphism). Having many forms. In the context of object-oriented programming terminology and concepts, the characteristic of an object to provide different behaviors based on the same message and methods owing to variances in external conditions.
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In the objectoriented paradigm, each object has a unique identifier independent of the values of other properties.
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Any method, language, or system that supports object identity, classification, and encapsulation and specialization. C++, Smalltalk, ObjectiveC, and Eiffel are examples of objectoriented implementation languages.
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