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Local Environment Setup If you are still willing to set up your environment for Java programming language, then this section guides you on how to download and set up Java on your machine. Following are the steps to set up the environment. Java SE is freely available from the link  Download Java . You can download a version based on your operating system. Follow the instructions to download Java and run the  .exe  to install Java on your machine. Once you installed Java on your machine, you will need to set environment variables to point to correct installation directories − Setting Up the Path for Windows Assuming you have installed Java in  c:\Program Files\java\jdk  directory − Right-click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'. Click the 'Environment variables' button under the 'Advanced' tab. Now, alter the 'Path' variable so that it also contains the path to the Java executable. Example, if the path is currently set to...

Java programming language was originally developed by Sun Microsystems which was initiated by James Gosling and released in 1995 as core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform (Java 1.0 [J2SE]). The latest release of the Java Standard Edition is Java SE 8. With the advancement of Java and its widespread popularity, multiple configurations were built to suit various types of platforms. For example: J2EE for Enterprise Applications, J2ME for Mobile Applications. The new J2 versions were renamed as Java SE, Java EE, and Java ME respectively. Java is guaranteed to be  Write Once, Run Anywhere. Java is − Object Oriented  − In Java, everything is an Object. Java can be easily extended since it is based on the Object model. Platform Independent  − Unlike many other programming languages including C and C++, when Java is compiled, it is not compiled into platform specific machine, rather into platform independent byte code. This byte code is distributed over t...