Glossary J A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z       Java. Java is a portable object-oriented language developed by Sun Microsystems that is used mostly for Web programming, although it is a full-featured language that can be used to develop large applications. Java programs come in two types: applications and applets. Basically, applications are stand-alone programs; applets are what you see when you encounter Java on the Web. Applets have much tighter security restrictions than do applications. JavaScript. JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting langauge developed by Netscape Communications for client/server applications. JavaScript is not the same as Java, although the languages do have similar syntax. All versions of Netscape Navigator starting with version 2.0 are capable of interpreting JavaScript statements that are part of an HTML document. When a remote site sends a document containing JavaScript statements, your browser executes these statements, producing the results you see. job. A task that the computer is supposed to do. join. A term used when a relational database cross-references two files. (See also database and relational database.) JPEG. Acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. A standard compression algorithm used for minimizing the amount of data required to display graphic files, particularly those used on the Internet. It was named for a group that devised the standard Back to Top                                                                                                                          Next-->