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What is determinism in computer science?

I was asked if my computer program (in Java) was deterministic. I'm wondering how could it be not? There is no such thing as a non-deterministic Java program right? Even if I use a random number generator to make branching unpredictable, it is still really non-deterministic (but harder to prove so).