Java is simple, secure, portable, object-oriented, robust, multithreaded, architecture-neutral, interpreted, high-performing, distributed, and dynamic. It is easy to write and learn, provides secure internet applications, can run on any device or platform, uses object-oriented programming, performs error checking, supports multithreaded apps, is not tied to specific hardware, uses bytecode to execute on any machine, has optimized bytecode for high performance, can transmit programs over networks, and carries runtime type information.