.java

2 claimants 2 primary 0 secondary shared primary (2)

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

950.0M
total occurrences
248.6M
since 2019 (26.2%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .java (950.0M), .Java (13.1K), .JAVA (8.2K), .jaVA (9), .javA (6), .jAVA (6), .JAva (3), .JaVA (3) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to java; java; java; Java (programming language) as primary by 4 authoritative claims.

Authoritative sources: ✓ Linguist ✓ Pygments ✓ Wikidata · Q251 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .java among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
javalinguistprimary
javapygmentsprimary
javawikidataprimary
Java (programming language)pygmentsprimary

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .java on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Java language source code file Q49243071
file format
file formattext/x-javaUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (2)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
VipissyCom.java · 10778 B · seen 16097× in SWH
predicted: java via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:473f8539a6d4f4cbdacc281194df2d02caab06d0;origin=https://github.com/substanc3-dev/jdownloader2;anchor=swh:1:rev:ce70b66913b19ba109cdbfdb0c73604cdb0efe50;path=/src/jd/plugins/hoster/VipissyCom.java
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GloriaTv.java · 13420 B · seen 13379× in SWH
predicted: java via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:5bc38b0b6e4e70f445b5319768bc07a00fb75875;origin=https://github.com/substanc3-dev/jdownloader2;anchor=swh:1:rev:ce70b66913b19ba109cdbfdb0c73604cdb0efe50;path=/src/jd/plugins/hoster/GloriaTv.java
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