Computing Languages for Bioinformatics: Java

Java programming language is a general-purpose programming language supporting object-oriented programming paradigm. Java was originally developed following the “write once, run anywhere” (WORA) philosophy meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are run on a Java Virtual Machine available for almost all the platforms. Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation).