The reason for its success is simple — much like Java’s WORA promise — it provides a common platform that can simplify many of the complexities of deploying a modern web application.

Java is a general-purpose programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1991. It is a class-based and object-oriented language specially designed to have as few ...

Java's popularity grew after its release, only waning in recent years as developers considered alternatives. In 2024's Stack Overflow survey, it remained a top 10 language, ahead of C#, C++, and C.