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Java is a prettyfast interpreted multiplatform programming language that's mostly used to program real desktop applications.
Javascript is actually ECMAscript. It's also an interpreted programming language that's usually used in the Browser to manupulate (X)HTML pages. You can hide and show parts of a page with it when a user click a link for example.
When a page sends a request to the server (normally using Javascript) to fetch data and changes the content of the page with it, or just processes it in another way, that's called AJAX. The Quick Reply form on this site for example uses AJAX to post replies. That's why no page reload is needed.
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