nonjava

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Germanic *ne

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Germanic *ainaz

Proto-Germanic *nainaz

Proto-West Germanic *nain

Old English nān

Middle English non

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Old English nān

Old English nān-

Middle English non-

English non-

Proto-Indo-European *yew-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *yéwos

Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas

Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?

Proto-Austronesian *zawa

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.?

Old Javanese jawa

Old Javanese Jawa

Javanese Jawabor.

English Java

English nonjava

From non- + Java.

Adjective

nonjava (not comparable)

1. (computing) That is not Java or does not conform to the standards and expectations of Java.
   • 1998, Journal of Object-oriented Programming:

     Additional items found on the CD include calling nonjava libraries from Java, and using the security API and developing JavaBeans components.

   • 2000, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Network Programming:

     Since writeUTF uses a variant of UTF-8 that's subtly incompatible with most nonjava software...

   • 2001, Jason Hunter, William Crawford, Java Servlet Programming:

     Native code is also useful when accessing legacy data through nonjava gateways.

   • 2002, Rod Johnson, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development:

     As the work of EJBs and other business objects often involves using nonjava resources such as databases...

   • 2003, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Head First Java:

     Serialization is appropriate when saving data for nonjava programs to use.

   • 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:

     ...and in corner cases they will not necessarily give the same results as implementations based on the JDK, let alone nonjava implementations.