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History of Java

Java was originally developed in 1991 by James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems, called the Green Team, to be used in small electronic devices. It was first called Oak but was renamed Java in 1995 due to a trademark issue. Java is now commonly used for internet programming, mobile apps, and games. The current stable version is Java SE 8, released in 2014.

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History of Java

Java was originally developed in 1991 by James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems, called the Green Team, to be used in small electronic devices. It was first called Oak but was renamed Java in 1995 due to a trademark issue. Java is now commonly used for internet programming, mobile apps, and games. The current stable version is Java SE 8, released in 2014.

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History of Java

1. Brief history of Java


2. Java Version History

Java history is interesting to know. The history of java starts from Green Team. Java team
members (also known asGreen Team), initiated a revolutionary task to develop a language
for digital devices such as set-top boxes, televisions etc.

For the green team members, it was an advance concept at that time. But, it was suited for
internet programming. Later, Java technology as incorporated by Netscape.

James Gosling

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


solutions etc. There are given the major points that describes 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) Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top
boxes.

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

4) After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.
Why Oak name for java language?
5) Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and choosen as a national tree of many countries
like 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 name for java language?

7) Why they choosed java name 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 withSilk". Since java
was so unique, most of the team members preferred java.

8) Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).

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

10) Originally 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 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)

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