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Hello, I am new to Java. My roommate who is an ex-Java programmer says that Java and Javascript are virtually two different languages. He didn't give much in the way of distinction except to say that Javascript didn't support inheritance. I was wondering if someone could explain the difference to me. Also...a friend of mine wants to start a website store and I was wondering if all that would be needed to implement the site would be a knowledge of HTML and Java. So, I guess what I'm asking is if applets loaded to the server would facilitate the on-line store? Is there anything I am missing?

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The simplest answer to this question is from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
"JavaScript copies many names and naming conventions from Java, but the two languages are otherwise unrelated and have very different semantics."

If you want a good description of what JavaScript is (rather than defining it by what it's not), start with chapter 1 of our book Professional JavaScript for Web Developers:

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/...026691-104.pdf
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