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Java Uses an Intermediate Language

Java source code is compiled into an intermediate language called "bytecode." The bytecode can be run in any hardware that has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for that machine platform. Thus, the "write once-run anywhere" concept.

Java Runs on Clients and Servers

When a Java program has been called by a Web page from the client machine, it is dubbed an "applet." When it runs on the server, it is known as a "servlet." When running stand alone in a user's computer, it is a Java "application."

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