Chapter 5 Vocabulary - Using Loops in Java Code

while

A Java programming language keyword used to declare a loop that iterates a block of statements. The loop's exit condition is specified as part of the while statement.

for

A Java programming language keyword used to declare a loop that reiterates statements. The programmer can specify the statements to be executed, exit conditions, and initialization variables for the loop.

do

A Java programming language keyword used to declare a loop that will iterate a block of statements. The loop`s exit condition can be specified with the "while" keyword.

continue

A Java programming language keyword used to resume program execution at the end of the current loop. If followed by a label, "continue" resumes execution where the label occurs.

break

A Java programming language keyword used to resume program execution at the statement immediately following the current statement. If followed by a label, the program resumes execution at the labeled statement.

for-each loop

A for-each loop is an enhanced for loop. It is used to iterate over arrays and collections. This feature was added to Java to make the access and retrieval of elements of arrays and collections faster.

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol. The Internet protocol, based on TCP/IP, used to fetch hypertext objects from remote hosts.

Client

In the client/server model of communications, the client is a process that remotely accesses resources of a compute server, such as compute power and large memory capacity.

goto

This is a reserved Java programming language keyword. However, it is not used by current versions of the Java programming language.

Codebase

Works together with the code attribute in the <APPLET> tag to give a complete specification of where to find the main applet class file: code specifies the name of the file, and codebase specifies the URL of the directory containing the file.