[Tucker]

I know JavaScript is made for the internet to use on web-browsers unlike Java, but I've heard the coding is very similar. Are there many more commands with Java that are not in JavaScript? How hard is it to learn Java if someone knows JavaScript?

[Ajay]

Actually Java is very much different from JavaScript. Infact, there is no relationship at all.

[GuyKels]

Well, they are related in the way a child is related to the father. As I was told, JavaScript is a different language that was created to perform simple functions of Java in HTML documents, but it was made with Java in mind, and was named accordingly.

Java vs. JavaScript

"The main difference is that Java can stand on its own while JavaScript must be placed inside an HTML document to function. Java is a much larger and more complicated language that creates "standalone" applications. A Java "applet" (so-called because it is a little application) is a fully contained program. JavaScript is text that is fed into a browser that can read it and then is enacted by the browser."

"Another major difference is how the language is presented to the end user (that's you when you're surfing). Java must be compiled into what is known as a "machine language" before it can be run on the Web. Basically what happens is after the programmer writes the Java program and checks it for errors, he or she hands the text over to another computer program that changes the text code into a smaller language. That smaller language is formatted so that it is seen by the computer as a set program with definite beginning and ending points. Nothing can be added to it and nothing can be subtracted without destroying the program."

[jessi_rubin]

java and javascript are entirely different janguages. Java is for application programming with software developement while javascript is for executing scripts on websites. Jscript is not for application developement.

[mr.smith]

Java and JavaScripts are completely different languages, Java is created by Sun Microsystem and Javascript is created by NetEscape Navigator developers, Java scripts i use in static web pages but Java can build whole dynamic and Static website, but both languages are very useful and powerful.

[newbie]

javascript is browser dependant!...it is also interpreted.. you can not make another language with it..methods are inbuilt and the scope of making anything is within what is predefined

java is platform independant. you can use it for a browser or as an application
it is both comipled and interpreted.you can make anything with it, including your own language!its a full fledged language