History of Java

History of Java

Java is developed by "James Gosling" and his team members "Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton"known as "GreenTeam" in the year 1991 they started this developed at Sun Microsystem.
Initially, it is developed for the embedded system in electronics like set-up boxes, interactive television etc. However it is suited for the internet progromming. Later,it is incorporate with Netscape
First this technology was named as GreenTalk and has its extension as ".gt". Later on, it is renamed as "OAK". Because this programming technology is so unique and OAK is the trademark of Oak technology. They decided to name this technology with the new name other than OAK which should be more unique as like that technology and easy to spell and free to say. The team member spending lot of time and energy to name this technology. The suggested words are "dynamic, alive, jolt, impact, revolutionary" etc. The name "java" emerged during that session and most the team member preferred this name than other. Notice, the Java is just a name, not an acronym. Finally, the java came to existence in the year 1995 with the version of "JDK BETA".

Version History of Java

Version
Released on
JDK BETA
1995
JDK 1.0
January 1996
JDK 1.1
February 1997
J2SE 1.2
December 1998
J2SE 1.3
May 2000
J2SE 1.4
February 2002
J2SE 5.0
September 2004
Java SE 6
December 2006
Java SE 7
July 2011
Java SE 8
March 2014
Java SE 9
September 2017
Java SE 10
March 2018

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