| C++ | Java |
| It becomes a platform independent | It is also becoming a platform independent. |
| For system programming it is mainly used. | For application programming it is mainly used. |
| It was mainly designed for applications and systems, then extension of C programming language. | It was created and designed as an interpreter for printing systems but later extended as a support network computing. |
| It supports multiple inheritance. | It can be achieved by interfaces in java and does not support multiple inheritance. |
| In C++ we can write pointer program. | In java we can’t write pointer program. Internally java supports pointer. |
| It uses compiler only. | It uses both compiler and interpreter. |
| It is an Object-Oriented Programming Language and single root hierarchy is not possible in C language. | It is also Object-Oriented Programming Language and It is a single root hierarchy as everything gets derived from java.lang.Object. |
