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 JPEG

An acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, an industry committee that developed a compression standard for still images, JPEG refers to the graphics file format that uses this compression standard. You will find JPEG files on the World Wide Web with the file extension .JPG or .JPEG

 Java

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. to create executable content (i.e, self-running applications) that can be easily distributed through networks like the Internet, and run on any platform. Developers use Java to create special programs called applets that can be incorporated in web pages to make them interactive. A Java-enabled web browser is required to interpret and run the Java applets.

 JavaScript

JavaScript (or ECMAScript) is a scripting language that allows dynamic behavior to be specified within HTML documents.