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Java is a programming language and computing platform that was developed at Sun Microsystems, which released it in 1995. It is widely used, especially for building web applications. Java is a platform independent (can run on any machine), object-oriented programming language that accommodates  multithreading. Its disadvantages include a slower speed than some more recently developed languages, memory management and code complexity.

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