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Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java was started as a project called "Oak" by James Gosling, a Canadian, in June 1991.

Java is a platform independent technology that allows the same programs to run near identically on Macs, PCs, Linux, cell phones, etc. Because of this it is popular as a web technology and is used for a few key components of WebCT.

[edit] Fixing my Java to work with WebCT

In Windows, go to Start => Control Panel (sometimes in settings menu) => Add/Remove Programs and select and "Remove" everything JAVA or JRE.

Then download and install Java from http://java.com.

[edit] Other Resources

• Blackboard Inc.'s Java Troubleshooting information: http://www2.blackboard.com/tuneup/viewpage?name=tuneup_browser_troubleshoot#jre_errors
• "Java" Blackboard Campus Edition (CE) Annotations Blog, http://ce-annotations.blogspot.com/2007/11/java.html
• Sun Java Web Site, http://java.com