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A Java program differs from a C program in:
(Ref: Java in a Nutshell (2nd
Edition), by David Flanagan, O'Reilly and Associates, 1997)
- Program Structure
and Environment
- The Name Space:
Packages, Classes and Members
- Comments
- No Preprocessor
- Unicode and
Character Escapes
- Primitive Data
Types
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- Reference Data
Types
- Objects
- Arrays
- Strings
- Operators
- Statements
- Exceptions and
Exception Handling
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In addition, a Java program differs from a C++
program in:
- Object Model
- Class Syntax
- Multiple
Inheritance vs. Interfaces
- Richer Set of
Class Libraries
- Class Constructors
- No Class
Destructors
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- Finalizers and
Final Methods
- Access Specifiers
vs. Visibility Modifiers
- Abstract Classes
- No Templates
- No Operator
Overloading
- No Conversion
Functions
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We'll be going into detail on
each of these topics later...
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