History of Java

The history of Java is quite interesting. It was developed by James Gosling in 1995. He and his team members started the project in the early '90s and were called as Green team. It was originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes. However, at that time it was too advanced technology for television industry. Simple, robust, portable, platform independent, secured, high performance, multithreaded, architecture neutral, object-oriented, interpreted, and dynamic were some of the principles for creating Java programming.

James Gosling and his team called their project “Greentalk” and its file extension was .gt and later became to be known as “OAK” and was developed as a part of green project. Oak was renamed as "Java" in 1995 as it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies. James Gosling renamed it Java while having coffee near his office. The coffee was called Java coffee, the coffee from Indonesia.

The Time magazine, in 1995, called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.

JDK 1.0 released in (January 23, 1996). Since the first release of Java, many additional features have been added to the language. Now Java is being used in Windows applications, Web applications, enterprise applications, mobile applications, cards, games, e-business solutions, etc. New features are added in Java with each new version. The latest versions of Java are JAVA SE 11  (September 2018) and JAVA SE 12 (March 2019).    

Rishita Jaiswal

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