-- This entry is unfinished, but I'm releasing it as I don't find the time to finish it. Maybe I will update it later ---

• Real object oriented language
  
• easy pluggable technology: interfaces
  
• strong type checking at compile and runtime
  
• C/C++: lack of pointer, arraybounds checking
  
• build in concurrency
  
• namespaces: public/protected/private ...
  
• single inheritence: describe problems of multi inheritence ..
  
• Java checks that variables are initialized
  
• memory management: you don't have to release memory when you have to -> performance
  
• multi threading and concurrency primitives build in
  
• multiple interfaces
  
• extensibility through interfaces and dynamic class loading
  
• class loader
  
• large standard class library
  
• Java community offer many components in internet
  
• higher level of abstraction
  

• http://www.rovol.com/archives/000074.html
  
• http://www.idiom.com/%7Ezilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
  
• http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=153
  
• http://www.kano.net/javabench/