Primary Goals

There were five primary goals in the creation of the Java language:
1. It should be “simple, object oriented and familiar”.
2. It should be “robust and secure”.
3. It should be “architecture neutral and portable”.
4. It should execute with “high performance”.
5. It should be “interpreted, threaded, and dynamic”.

After its launch, major web browsers soon incorporated the ability to run secure Java applets within web pages, and Java quickly became popular. With the advent of Java 2 the new versions had multiple configurations built for different types of platforms. For example, J2EE targeted enterprise applications and the greatly stripped-down version J2ME for mobile applications.