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Etymology

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From non- +‎ Java.

Adjective

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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.