Robust

• Makes programming easier by performing error checking at compile time.
• Also eliminates the use of pointers.

• Many applications that use Java are, by definition, high risk.
• Multi-platform.
• Networked.
• Widely distributed.
• Access many resources (databases, for example).
• So, security is paramount.  Java is designed to prevent programmers from attempting to:
• Overrun the runtime stack.
• Access memory outside its own space.
• Write to and/or read from a file when used in a browser.  That's correct, applets cannot do this.  But applications can.

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 4, 2001