A Great History Of JAVA

The History of Java is interesting to know about that, Firstly the word Java starts from Green Team by the developers called Java team members (also known as Green Team). Initiated Java is one of the evolutionary task which is use to developing a language for digital devices like set-top boxes, televisions etc. 

During at the time of green team members to develop the Java, It was an advance concept at that time. But, Finally it was suited for developing the internet programming concepts. Later, Java technology as incorporated by Netscape .

At present, Java is mainly used for developing the programs like such as Internet programming, Mobile devices, Games, E-business solutions etc. So the given below major points are to be described  & explained  about  how the  history of Java  is came.

1)  A father of Java  name called "James Gosling" and his team members are "Mike Sheridan", and "Patrick Naughton" initiated the Java language project in year June 1991. The little team of sun engineers referred to as "Green Team".

2)  It was Originally designed for developing the small embedded system in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.

3) At First, Java was referred to as as "Green-talk" by James gosling and the file extension was .gt.

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

Why & How "Oak" name is came ?

5)  Why Oak? name, Actually Oak is one of the tree, A symbol of strength and it was chosen as a national tree of some  many  countries like U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania among 13 countries as  a  national tree.  

  

So this is the reason behind that author & developer of green team ( James gosling ) choose the first name of software called "Oak" in the year 1991.   

6) Later within the year 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" as a result of Oak was already a trademark by Oak Technologies.

7) Why they had choose Java name for Java language? 

The green team members gathered to choose a name for new software language. The team members suggested some of the words like "dynamic", "revolutionary", "Silk", "jolt", "DNA" etc. They needed one thing that mirrored the potency of the technology: revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool, unique, and easy to spell and fun to say.

But, The father of James Gosling preferred name called Java. "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk". Since java was so unique word the most of the team members preferred java.

8)  Actually, Java is an island of Indonesia where the first coffee seeds was produced to the world, It is called as Java coffee the symbol of java.

9)  Here, Notice that Java is just only a name but it is not an acronym.

10) Java was developed by James gosling at Sun micro systems in U.S.A ( At present which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in year 1995.

11) In the year 1995, Time magazine reveled called about on " Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995 ".

12)   Java editions are classified into 3 types they are :

• J2SE ( Standard Edition )
• J2ME ( Mobile Edition )
• J2EE ( Expressed Edition )

13) First Java Version on JDK 1.0 ( Java Development Kit ) was released in January 23, 1996.

Java Version History

There are many java versions that has been released. Current stable release of Java is Java SE 8.

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 March, 2014)
11. Java SE 9 (12th September, 2017)

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