Java & JAVA SUN

[Guest]

Can any of you explain what this does? The icon that looks like a little
coffee cup on the bottom in the icon..Sorry to be so lame, I have no clue on
Java & would like to know in laymans terms about it, what it is & what it
does?

Thanks Dave (e-mail address removed)

 

[dev]

/Dave/ said:

Can any of you explain what this does? The icon that looks like a little
coffee cup on the bottom in the icon..Sorry to be so lame, I have no clue on
Java & would like to know in laymans terms about it, what it is & what it
does?

http://java.sun.com/ has all the info

JAVA and JavaSCRIPT are two entirely different critters. JS is built-in
to your browser. JAVA is an add-on, which you apparently already have.

 

[Gary Davis]

See: http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/

 

[Joel Rubin]

Can any of you explain what this does? The icon that looks like a little
coffee cup on the bottom in the icon..Sorry to be so lame, I have no clue on
Java & would like to know in laymans terms about it, what it is & what it
does?

Java is a computer language used to write programs, frequently
programs found on web pages. You probably have the Sun Java Virtual
Machine (aka Java Runtime) because you need it to run other peoples'
Java programs.

As a simple example, someone might write a Java program to make a
simple animated clock face (with hands, not a digital clock) and put
it on their web page and if you didn't have the JVM you wouldn't see
the clock.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Java is a computer language used to write programs, frequently
programs found on web pages. You probably have the Sun Java Virtual
Machine (aka Java Runtime) because you need it to run other peoples'
Java programs.

As a simple example, someone might write a Java program to make a
simple animated clock face (with hands, not a digital clock) and put
it on their web page and if you didn't have the JVM you wouldn't see
the clock.

Also: The coffee cup icon in the Task Bar is the control setting for
the Sun Java, which is probably not wanted there. Take the Java Plugin
item in the Control Panel, and on its front page, uncheck the box 'Show
Java in System Tray'. Note also that you can on its Browser page check
to say if you want to use this Java with Internet Explorer - if you
also have the Microsoft Virtual machine you might want that normally
unchecked. You can see if you do have that by Start - Run and run
WJView. If there is a Microsoft VM installed that will say 'Microsoft
Command Line Loader for Java'