Java Lecture
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.

From the beginning

  1. It was created by James Gosling in 1991 (June), which is known as the creator of Java.

  2. Java creator team (also known as Green Team).

  3. The members of Green Team: James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, ED Frank and Mike Sheridan.

  4. Firstly, it was called Greentalk by James Gosling and file extension was .gt.

  5. After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.

  6. In 1995, Oak was renamed as Java because it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies.

  7. In 2006 Sun started to make Java available under the GNU operating system General Public License (GPL).

  8. Oracle continues this project called Open JDK.

So why did they decide to call it Java?

According to James Gosling “Java” was one of the top choices along with the “Silk”. Since Java was so unique, most of the team members preferred Java.

  • Java coffee refers to coffee beans produced in the Indonesian island called Java.
  • Notice that Java is just a name not an acronym (abbreviation).

Java Version History

There are many Java versions that has been released. Current release of Java is OpenJDK 10.

You may see also Java Versions.

  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 (23rd Dec, 2006)
  9. Java SE 7 (28th Jul, 2011)
  10. Java SE 8 (18th Mar, 2014)
  11. Java SE 9 (21st Sep, 2017)
  12. Java SE 10 (20th Mar, 2018)

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