java

plural javas

1. countableuncountableA blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
2. UScolloquialcountableuncountableCoffee in general.

   45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.

   2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135

plural javas

1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

   The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.

   2015, Luc Sante, The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN

1. An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
2. computer languagesAn object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.

   The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.

   2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022

3. proscribedcomputer languagesJavaScript (by confusion with Java).

   I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens.

   1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)

   1 more example

   In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?

   1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet)

plural Javas

1. A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.