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History of Java

1. History of Java
2. Java Version History

The history of Java is very interesting. Java was originally designed for
interactive television, but it was too advanced technology for the digital cable
television industry at the time. The history of Java starts with the Green Team.
Java team members (also known as Green Team), initiated this project to
develop a language for digital devices such as set-top boxes, televisions, etc.
However, it was best suited for internet programming. Later, Java technology
was incorporated by Netscape.

The principles for creating Java programming were "Simple, Robust, Portable,
Platform-independent, Secured, High Performance, Multithreaded, Architecture
Neutral, Object-Oriented, Interpreted, and Dynamic". Java was developed by
James Gosling, who is known as the father of Java, in 1995. James Gosling and
his team members started the project in the early '90s.

Currently, Java is used in internet programming, mobile devices, games, e-


business solutions, etc. Following are given significant points that describe the
history of Java.

1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java
language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green
Team.
2) Initially it was designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances
like set-top boxes.

3) Firstly, it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling, and the file extension was
.gt.

4) After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green
project.

Why Java was named as "Oak"?

5) Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and chosen as a national tree of many
countries like the U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania, etc.

6) In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark by


Oak Technologies.

Why Java Programming named "Java"?

7) Why had they chosen the name Java for Java language? The team gathered to
choose a new name. The suggested words were "dynamic", "revolutionary", "Silk",
"jolt", "DNA", etc. They wanted something that reflected the essence of the
technology: revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool, unique, and easy to spell, and
fun to say.

According to James Gosling, "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk".
Since Java was so unique, most of the team members preferred Java than other
names.
8) Java is an island in Indonesia where the first coffee was produced (called
Java coffee). It is a kind of espresso bean. Java name was chosen by James
Gosling while having a cup of coffee nearby his office.

9) Notice that Java is just a name, not an acronym.

10) Initially developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which is now a


subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.

11) In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.

12) JDK 1.0 was released on January 23, 1996. After the first release of Java,
there have been many additional features added to the language. Now Java is
being used in Windows applications, Web applications, enterprise applications,
mobile applications, cards, etc. Each new version adds new features in Java.

Java Version History

Many java versions have been released till now. The current stable release of
Java is Java SE 10.

1. JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)


2. JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan 1996)
3. JDK 1.1 (19th Feb 1997)
4. J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec 1998)
5. J2SE 1.3 (8th May 2000)
6. J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb 2002)
7. J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep 2004)
8. Java SE 6 (11th Dec 2006)
9. Java SE 7 (28th July 2011)
10. Java SE 8 (18th Mar 2014)
11. Java SE 9 (21st Sep 2017)
12. Java SE 10 (20th Mar 2018)
13. Java SE 11 (September 2018)
14. Java SE 12 (March 2019)
15. Java SE 13 (September 2019)
16. Java SE 14 (Mar 2020)
17. Java SE 15 (September 2020)
18. Java SE 16 (Mar 2021)
19. Java SE 17 (September 2021)
20. Java SE 18 (to be released by March 2022)

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