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highlighted in bold blue font  The syntax of the Java
programming language is the set of rules defining how a Java
program is written and interpreted.  The syntax is mostly
derived from C and C++. Unlike C++, Java is almost exclusively
an object-oriented language. There are no global functions or
variables, all code belongs to classes and all values are
objects. The only exception is the primitive types, which are
not represented by a class instance due to performance reasons
(though can be automatically converted to objects and vice-versa
via autoboxing). Some features like operator overloading or
unsigned integer types are omitted to simplify the language and
to avoid possible programming mistakes.  Java syntax is
constantly improved in major JDK releases. The latest
improvements to the language happened in Java SE 7, which
introduced such language features as try-with-resources
statements and