Java History!

                                   JAVA HISTORY!

The story of the Java language is well known by this point. James Gosling and a team of
developers were working on an interactive TV project at Sun Microsystems in the mid-
The 1990s when Gosling became frustrated with the language being used. C++ was an object-oriented
a programming language developed a decade earlier as an extension of the C
language.
To address some of the things that frustrated him about C++, Gosling holed up in his
office and created a new language that was suitable for his project.
Although that interactive TV effort flopped, Gosling’s language had unforeseen
applicability to a new medium that was becoming popular at the same time: the Web.
Java was released to the public for the first time in 1995. Although most of the language’s
features were primitive compared with C++ (and Java today), special Java programs called
applets could be run as part of web pages on the most popular web browser at that time,
Netscape Navigator.
This functionality—the first interactive programming available on the Web—drew so
much attention to the new language that several hundred thousand programmers learned
Java in its first six months.
Even after the novelty of Java web programming wore off, the overall benefits of the
language became clear, and the programmers stuck around. There are more professional
Java programmers today than C++ programmers.
Sun Microsystems controlled the development of the Java language from its inception
until 2010, when the company was acquired by the database and enterprise software giant
Oracle in a $7.4 billion deal. Oracle, a longtime user of the language on its own products,
has a strong commitment to supporting Java and continues to increase its capabilities with
each new release.

➤1990

Sun Microsystems decided to develop special software that could be used to manipulate consumer electronics devices. A team of sun microsystems programmers headed by James Gosling was formed to undertake this task.

➤1991

after exploring the possibility of using the most popular object-oriented language C++, the team announced a new language named "Oak".

➤1992

The team, known as Green Project team by Sun, demonstrated the appliances using a hand-held device with a tiny touch-sensitive screen.

➤1993

The World Wide Web (WWW) appeared on the internet and transformed the text-based Internet into a graphical-rich environment. The Green Project team came up with the idea of developing Web applets (tiny programs) using the new language that could run on all types of computers connected to the Internet.

➤1994

The team developed a Web browser called "HotJava" to locate and run applet programs on the internet.

HotJave Demonstrated the power of the new language, thus making it instantly popular among Internet users. 

➤1995

Oak is renamed "Java" Due to some legal snags. Java is just a name and is not an acronym. Many popular companies including Netscape and Microsoft announced their support to Java.

➤1996 

Java established itself not only as a leader for Internet programming but also as a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language, Sun releases Java Development Kit 1.0.

➤1997 

Sun releases Java Development Kit 1.1 (JDK 1.1).

➤1998

Sun release the Java 2 with version 1.2 of the Software Development Kit (SDK 1.2).

➤1999

Sun releases Java 2 Platform, standard Edition (J2SE) and Enterprise Edition(J2EE).

➤2000

J2SE with SDK 1.3 was released.

➤2002

J2SE with SDK 1.4 was released.

➤2004

J2SE with JDK 5.0 (instead of JDK 1.5) was released. This is known as J2SE 5.0.

➤2006

Java SE 6 was released. With this release, Sun changed the name from 'J2SE' to 'Java SE' and also removes '0' from the version name.

➤2011

Java SE 7 was released.

➤2014 

Java SE 8 was released.

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