Java

A High Level Programming language that is popular. It used to be called oak afaik. Produced and written at Sun Microsystems, rumours back in 1995 indicated that an Operating System should be written entirely in Java. Nothing of the sorts has happened yet, but there is webservers (Tomcat) and all sorts of programs written in Java already.

It is Interpreted but produces a sort of byte-code to speed up the interpretation. The reason this is done is because this allows portable byte-code on many platforms without having to share the source code. Because of the byte code this explains that you have a Java process running when you launch a java program.

Java is Object Oriented. It's black-box friendlyness allow it to be shipped with a lot of API and Developer Kits for a sleuth of products such as cell phones, PDA's and other mobile communication and computing equipment.