Unit 3: The history of Java Programming

The history of Java Programming

- James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.
- Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.
 - Firstly, it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling and file extension was .gt.
- After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.
- Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and chosen as a national tree of many countries like U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania etc.
- In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark of Oak Technologies.
- Why they chose java name for java language?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.
- Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).
- Notice that Java is just a name, not an acronym.
- Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.
- In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.
- JDK 1.0 released in(January 23, 1996).

Java Programming Version History
There are many java versions that have been released. Current stable release of Java is Java SE 8.
- JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)
- JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan, 1996)
- JDK 1.1 (19th Feb, 1997)
- J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec, 1998)
- J2SE 1.3 (8th May, 2000)
- J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb, 2002)
- J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep, 2004)
- Java SE 6 (11th Dec, 2006)
- Java SE 7 (28th July, 2011)
- Java SE 8 (18th March, 2014)