Most Android developers will use Java to write their apps. Java is an object oriented programming language. But what precisely does that mean?

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What is Java? Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s (later purchased by Oracle).

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

Last time, in ”Transitioning into object-oriented programming using Java,” we learned that for a programming language to be truly object-oriented, it should support information hiding ...

The Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a Java specification that bridges the gap between relational databases and object-oriented programming.