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47 unusual facts about Java


1994 Java earthquake

The epicenter was off the eastern part of the southern Java coast, near the east end of the Java Trench.

524th Special Operations Squadron

Bataan, Luzon, Philippines, 5 January 1942 (Air echelon operated from: Malang, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 18 February–c. 1 March 1942, Archerfield Airport 10–24 March 1942)

On 12 February pilots of the 91st flew their A-24s to Malang Java in the Netherlands East Indies to defend the island.

Alice Dewey

Members of the research team studied different aspects of contemporary social life in the town of Pare, East Java, known pseudonymously in their publications as Modjokuto.

She conducted field research in east central Java, Indonesia from 1952 to 1954, joining in the Modjokuto Project with Harvard University Ph.D. candidates Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz, Robert Jay, Donald Fagg, and Edward Ryan.

Bantul Regency

Like many regions on the island of Java, it is densely populated with roughly 1,600 people per square kilometer.

Bernard Arps

Since 1979 Arps spent four years on fieldwork in Indonesia, in the regions of Surakarta and Yogyakarta in central Java, Banyuwangi on the eastern tip of the island, and Cilacap on the south coast.

Biawak Busuk

He was attacked by the king of Majapahit of Java, King Batara Tamavill for declaring himself as 'Mjeura'(those who dare) and fled to Temasik(Singapore).

Biodiversity of Borneo

During Pleistocene glacial maxima, the sea level was lower than at present and the islands of the Sunda shelf (Sumatra, Borneo and Java) and the Asian mainland were connected by lowlands traversed by rivers.

Buchanania arborescens

The species was formally described in 1826 by botanist Carl Ludwig Blume based on plant specimens collected from Java.

Budi Darma

Budi Darma, BA, MA, Prof. Emeritus (born April 25, 1937 in Rembang, Central Java, Indonesia) is often described as one of Indonesia's most influential writers.

Budiman Sudjatmiko

Budiman Sudjatmiko (born in Cilacap, Central Java 10 March 1970) is an Indonesian activist and politician.

Charles Ledger

Ledger did a great service to the world, as millions of cinchona trees grown in India and Java sprang originally from the seeds he collected.

Cocculus

--1817--> – Queen Coralbead (India east to Java)

Daly Waters Airfield

The airfield was a waypoint on the "Brereton Route" the early months of 1942 during World War II for operations between Australia and Java.

Daniel Goode

Since 1976, Goode has been a member of Gamelan Son of Lion, a Javanese-style iron gamelan ensemble dedicated to new music, for which he has composed many works.

Deena Burton

Deena Burton (September 23, 1948—April 3, 2005) was an American dancer, specializing in the field of Javanese and Balinese dance.

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon

In a letter from Lord Minto Governor General of India upon that occasion, he acknowledges the public service I rendered, not only as relating to the fall of the Mauritius, but adds that it was to the co-operation I afforded he was indebted for the means of moving against Java.

Edwin Lankester

Rushton emigrated to Java, married, and raised a family, the only one of Edwin's offspring to do so.

Felix Kopstein

In 1924 he transferred to Java, being employed at the Pasteur Institute in Bandung, while in the meantime conducting studies of lizards and snakes native to the island.

Gerður Kristný

Gerður Kristný lives in Reykjavík but travels regularly around the world to present her work, giving readings in places like Kampala, Cox's Bazar, Java, Maastricht and Colgata.

Gibbon

Gibbons occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java.

Giriloyo

Giriloyo is a locality and graveyard in the Wukirsari valley north east of Imogiri, in southern Central Java or the Yogyakarta region.

Hideo Kodama

He visited Java in Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies as a special advisor in 1942 at the request of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Indonesia–Spain relations

In five years period (2005-2010), Spain's investment has reached the value of US$ 48.9 million in 17 projects, mainly on construction, chemical and pharmaceutical, transportation, logistics, storage and communications sectors, mostly located in Java and Bali.

Janszoon voyage of 1606

Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European landing on the Australian continent in 1606, sailing from Bantam, Java in the Duyfken.

Jepara Regency

People believed to have come from South Yunnan region migrated into the northern tip of Java during a time when Jepara was still separated by the Juwana Strait.

The regency also include the Karimun Java archipelago, itself recognized as a subdistrict, located in Java Sea approximately 80 kilometers northwest from Jepara Regency.

Juru kunci

Juru kunci are the custodians of graveyards and other sacred places in Java, Indonesia.

He protects the forest which is sacred and holy from exploitation, because that forbidden forest is heritage from his forefather in Dayeuhluhur, Cilacap, Java.

Konstantin Biebl

In 1926 he was offered an opportunity to sail to Java, by his friend Olga whose brother-in-law was on the island.

KOPASKA

One group is attached to the western fleet, based in Jakarta, and the other group is attached to the eastern fleet, based in Surabaya, East Java.

Max Burret

Shortly after his return to Germany, he voyaged to the Old World tropics, visiting Sri Lanka, the Malay Peninsula, Java, and Sumatra in 1938 and 1939.

Meymand

Its population is almost wholly occupied with the manufacture and sale of rose water, which is largely exported to many parts of Iran as well as to Arabia, India and Java.

Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo

Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo (born 1901 in Java, Indonesia; died 1987).

P Eridani

Several orbits have been calculated, including W.C. Jacob (1850), Bernhard Dawson (1919), W.J. Luyten & E.G. Ebbinghausen (1934), and J.G. Gore (1956) The most recent solution being produced by the Dutch astronomer Gale Bruno van Albada (1957), while he was acting as the Director of the Bosscha Observatory in Java, Indonesia.

Pararaton

The comparatively short text of 32 folio-size pages (1126 lines) contains the history of the kings of Singhasari and Majapahit in eastern Java.

Peggy Angus

She spent a year in Indonesia on a scholarship studying Folk Art in Java and Bali.

Richard Antrim

In the wake of that action, the smashed Allied fleet attempted to escape the cordon of Japanese warships rapidly tightening the noose around Java.

Rohan Rivett

However, after several weeks of evasion, around 4 March 1942 he was captured by the Japanese on Java and sent to work on the Burma Railway.

Seiyō Ogawa

He took photographs of Buddhist sculptures at the old temples in Nara and Kyoto, as well as of ruins in foreign countries, such as the Yungang Grottoes in China; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; and Borobudur and Candi Prambananin in Central Java.

Soekarno–Hatta International Airport

The boarding pavilions demonstrate local Indonesian vernacular architecture, particularly the roof took Javanese stepped-roof pendopo/joglo style pavilion.

South Lampung Regency

South Lampung Regency is a regency of Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, a strip of land lying between the provincial capital of Bandar Lampung and the Sunda Strait, as such its a major transit corridor to/from Java island.

Sukotjo

Sukotjo was born on 18 December 1927 in Kertosono, Java.

Synaphea spinulosa

However, there is no record of a substantial collection reaching Holland, and somehow these two specimens ended up at Java where they remained for over seventy years.

Violet Winspear

In The Palace of the Peacock (1969) Temple Lane reveals a streak for adventure when she travels to a far away island in the Java Seas in search of her fiance Nick.

William A. Glassford

Glassford commanded naval forces of the United States Asiatic Fleet during the first month of World War II, and then relocated to Java in the Netherlands East Indies to combine his forces with the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command ("ABDA").


Asphalt 3: Street Rules

Asphalt 3: Street Rules is a racing video game that was released in 2006 on Java-based mobile phones, in 2007 on non-Java based mobile phones and was also released in 2008 for Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 gaming platform.

Australasian strewnfield

The material from the impact stretches across the ocean to include the islands of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Java and reaches far out into the Indian Ocean and south to the western side of Australia.

Av Pak

Finally, popular Av Pak had its origin from The Kebaya worn in Java, Bali and Sunda which retained strongly on Embroidery like Av Pak.

Clash of the Empires

The film is about a prehistoric struggle between a community of Homo floresiensis (known as "hobbits") and their brutal oppressors, Java Man ("Java Men").

Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms

Rather than using Java, HD DVD (the defunct high definition successor to DVD) used a technology jointly developed by Microsoft and Disney called HDi that was based on XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies that are comparable to those used by standard Web browsers.

Daniel P. Friedman

Friedman and Felleisen wrote three more "little" books in the 1990s: The Little MLer, The Seasoned Schemer, and A Little Java, A Few Patterns.

DoJa

DoJa profile is a Java application environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone.

German submarine U-196

Oberleutnant Dr. Ing. Heinz Haake of U-196 is buried in a graveyard at Bogor, Java with members of the World War I German East Asia Squadron at Arca Domas, on the slopes of Mount Pangrango, Java.

Glassfish

GlassFish, a Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server project

Google Guava

The library's design and code were advised and reviewed by Joshua Bloch, the original lead designer of the Java Collections framework, and Doug Lea, one of the lead designers of concurrency utilities in JDK.

IbisBrowser

Currently, ibisBrowserLT/ibisBrowserDX is offered for NTT DoCoMo FOMA as i-mode Java application, for au the open application version of ibisBrowserDX, and Java edition for corresponding Willcom model version equipped with Java application.

Ibn Khordadbeh

Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern Asian coast as far as Brahamputra, The Andaman Islands, peninsular Malaysia and Java.

Jaipongan

The most widely available album of Jaipongan outside of Indonesia is Tonggeret by singer Idjah Hadidjah and Gugum Gumbira's Jugala orchestra, released in 1987, and re-released as West Java: Sundanese Jaipong and other Popular Music by Nonesuch/Elektra Records.

Jal tarang

The jal tarang developed on the pattern of gongs of gamelan orchestras played in Java, Bali, and Burma (now Myanmar).

Java Champions

In 2006, the Java Champions supported Michael Kölling in his attempts to get Microsoft to withdraw their patent application that would have stopped BlueJ.

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

Java Management Extensions

Jeff Hanson: Connecting JMX Clients and Servers: Understanding the Java Management Extensions, APress L. P., ISBN 1-59059-101-1

Les Massiliades

Multiple musical genres were represented, including rock, rap, reggae, afrobeat, metal, folk, java and what the headline band Les Hurlements d'Léo calls "caravaning".

Macomb Mathematics Science Technology Center

The day-to-day learning in IDS varies, including: QBasic programming Freshmen year, Statistics for half of Sophomore and Junior year, Java and SolidWorks Junior and Senior year, HTML and Flash at the end of senior year, as well as copious work time on the research project each student must complete and present with a partner each year.

Maestro guitars

Many different variables of tone woods are used in Maestro’s line of ukuleles, including Flame maple, acacia koa, Red Cedar, Cocobolo, Java Rosewood and Granadillo.

Mangkunegara II

At the time of Raffles ruled Java replaced Janssens, Sultanate Yogyakarta threatened dibubarkan.Campur Mangkunegaran hands with Legion Mangkunegaran successfulto prevent the dissolution of the Sultanate with the completion of the founding of the Duchy Paku Alaman.

Michael Kiesling

He is best known for co-authoring the board game trilogy Tikal, Java and Mexica with Wolfgang Kramer.

Netezza

In February 2010, Netezza announced that it had opened up its systems to support major programming models, including Hadoop, MapReduce, Java, C++, and Python models.

Ngawi Regency

Ngawi also the main gate to enter East Java province since there are intersections that connect Surabaya-Madiun-Bojonegoro-Solo-Jogja-Bandung-Jakarta.

No. 232 Squadron RAF

Both echelons met up again on 2 February at Palembang in Sumatra, but a further withdrawal to Java was required following the Japanese invasion of Sumatra.

No. 31 Squadron RAF

In 1946 the Squadron was disbanded in Java and reformed at PAF Base Masroor, Mauripur Karachi, at that time in British India.

OpenAM

OpenAM has the flexibility to chain methods together along with Adaptive Risk scoring, or to create custom authentication modules based on the JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) open standard.

Oracle Certification Program

Oracle's Certified Professional SE Programmer (OCPJP) exam is the fundamental exam required to demonstrate solid understanding of Java and is a prerequisite to a number of the other Java certificates.

Panembahan Kusuma Negara III

Assuming the throne following the death of his father on 22 December 1905, Usman was suspended from ruling in 1912 by the Netherlands East Indies authorities and was deposed by them on 16 January 1913 for "bad behaivour" and exiled to Bongor in Java.

Project Harmony

Apache Harmony was an Apache Software foundation project to create a FOSS Java implementation

Rice production in Indonesia

The importance of rice in Indonesian culture is demonstrated through the reverence of Dewi Sri, the rice goddess of ancient Java and Bali.

Sengkang Riverside Park

The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree, Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.

Singleton pattern

University of Maryland Computer Science researcher Bill Pugh has written about the code issues underlying the Singleton pattern when implemented in Java.

SPOJ

The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, and F#, Ruby, Icon, Intercal, Pike.

Spring Framework

Support is provided for all popular data access frameworks in Java: JDBC, iBatis/MyBatis, Hibernate, JDO, JPA, Oracle TopLink, Apache OJB, and Apache Cayenne, among others.

Stax

StAX, (Computer Programming) Streaming API for reading and writing XML in Java

Sulake

In its early days, Sulake developed and experimented with an open source Java based GNU called FUSE Light, an alternative to Macromedia's Flash.

Taverna workbench

It can also invoke R statistical services, local Java code, external tools on remote machines (via ssh), do XPath and other text manipulation, import a spreadsheet and include sub-workflows.

Tenggerese

Scattered communities of Tenggerese also exist in the Pasuruan, Probolinggo, Malang, and Lumajang districts of eastern Java.

TestNG

TestNG is supported, out-of-the-box or via plug-ins, by each of the three major Java IDEs - Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans.

The Java Posse

The group has also organized the "Java Posse Roundup", an unconference held in Crested Butte, Colorado in 2007-2014 and organized by Bruce Eckel.

Travis CI

It supports building software in numerous languages, including C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.

WHRO-TV

For example, students at the middle and high school levels compete in categories varying from web design to C++, Visual Basic and Java programmimng, as well as music composition and Computer Aided Design and Desktop Publishing and Desktop Presentations (PowerPoint).

XPages

XPages base internally on JavaServer Faces, but the sources of a XPages pages are an XML derivative called XSP which is translated into Java code when running the applications.