Java Introduction Java is one of the most popular environments for development today, and this popularity owes, in a large part, to its clear, concise object-orientation. Java has made a big splash in the general and business community (and not just the research community, like most of the other OOPLs on this site) mainly because of its compatibility with networks, and specifically the Internet. Java was designed to be seamlessly portable into many different runtime platforms and performs all of the operations expected from a platform designed to interface with the Net. Java also allows for facile collaboration from a distance, because of its architecture neutrality.