My Java Pages

To many people Java is the language which makes things move on webpages. In reality it is much more than that. Java was developed by Sun to be a "run-anywhere" language. Rather than being compiled (the process by which a computer program is turned from human-readable form, to computer-readable form) into machine-code that can only be read by one type of computer, Java is compiled into "byte-code" code which can run on a wide variety of computers. This is its main feature, but aside from that, it is also a darn nice language to program in. Java is clearly inspired by C++, but has a much cleaner syntax, and lacks some features which tended to cause problems in C++ code - most notibly the concept of "pointers". Java also has an extremely powerful set of libraries included as standard to do everything from encryption to designing advanced user interfaces.

On these pages you will find both information about Java software which I think is interesting/cool/whatever, and details of my own Java projects.

• Software
• Projects