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Questions:

(a) How does the Java-based system help you track inventory and improve Chapter Five: Object oriented programming with Java
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efficiency? What features enable effective inventory management?

(b) How does the Java system enhance the customer experience at “Java
kinywaji”? How does it streamline ordering and provide real-time
information to customers?

Overview of Java programming (d) Memory management: Java features
language automatic memory management
through garbage collection, reducing
Java is a general-purpose, high-level the risk of memory leaks.
programming language, was created by
James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (now Applications
Oracle) in the mid-1990s. It is designed to
be platform-independent, where it can run (a) Enterprise software: Java is widely
anywhere through bytecode compilation used for developing web applications,
and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java server-side applications, desktop
is known for its simplicity, portability, applications, games and middleware.
and extensive ecosystem of libraries and (b) Mobile development: Java is the
frameworks. primary language for Android app
development using the Android SDK.
Features (c) Big data and cloud computing: Java
(a) Object Oriented Programming is utilized in technologies such as
(OOP): Java is centered around Hadoop, Spark, and various cloud-
OOP principles, supporting classes, based services.
objects, inheritance, polymorphism,
and encapsulation. The following are some of the reasons to

(b) Platform independence: Java code is use Java programming language:
compiled to bytecode, which can be (a) Platform independence: refers to the
executed on any device with a JVM, ability of Java code to “write once,
allowing for high portability. run anywhere” on any platform with

(c) Rich standard library: Java offers the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
a comprehensive standard library, installed. This eliminates the
providing utilities for networking, I/O, necessity of developing code again
collections, and GUI programming. for various operating systems. Java

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