Java

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he Internet boom.
Oak’s design criteria consisted of being small, secure, reliable, and platform independent. Platform independence is important in their design because of the wide variety of electronic manufacturers. Reliability is important because the average consumer does not want a product that needs to constantly be rebooted due to errors and crashes. Finally, security was an essential design criterion because Oak based products would all be able to function on a network and exchange information.
Although Java failed in the consumer electronics market, it was a lucky coincidence that Java was created during the World Wide Web boom when networking programming started to become an important concept. The Internet boom was the turning point for Java. These design features; security, portability, and reliability, made Java an ideal language for distributing executable programs via the World Wide Web and also a general-purpose programming language for developing programs that are easily usable and portable across different platforms....