Java is a platform-independent object-oriented programming language.  It is one of the most popular web applications languages in the world, used by most of the Fortune 500 companies as its preferred front-end technology.

Benefits:

• Object orientation simplifies reusability of classes and objects
• It is architecture neutral and portable to almost any platform
• It is secure
• It is robust and stable
• It executes with high performance because it is based on C++ and has automatic memory management
• It is dynamic
• There is an extensive codebase and many libraries and frameworks (e.g. Spring) to choose from
• There are in excess of ten million java developers world wide
• It is owned and supported by Oracle Corporation (originally developed by Sun)