Borrowed fromJavaneseꦗꦮ(jawa), possibly fromSanskritयव-द्वीप(yava-dvīpa,“island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially calledOak) is a reference tojava, the blend of coffee from the island.
1996 October 6, Timothy Litwiller, “HOW TO MAKE AJAVA ALERT POP UP ON LOAD”, incomp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
1996 December 10, Cédric Bouckaert, “onBlur event handler with input fields”, incomp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
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 anjava alert which says that field two should have a value and then ajava alert which says that field one should have a value and then ajava... get the picture ?
1997 January 7, Kenneth Roddy, “Java Alert Messages When Netscape Home Page Loads”, incomp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows (Usenet):
1997 February 18, AG, “alert...is there a way of controling font size and style whenjava alert window opens”, incomp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
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 whenjava alert window opens.
2003 April 8, mpaulopes, “Passing values to aJava popup windows”, inmacromedia.coldfusion.cfml_general_discussion (Usenet):
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