History Of Java

 Background of Java

Java's history is highly fascinating. Although Java was initially intended for interactive television, the digital cable television business at the time could not use it due to its advanced technology. The Green Team is where Java's history began. This project was started by members of the Java team (also known as the Green Team) to create a language for digital devices like set-top boxes, televisions, etc. But, internet programming was where it excelled. Later, Netscape incorporated Java technology.

"Simple, Robust, Portable, Platform-independent, Secured, High Performance, Multithreaded, Architecture Neutral, Object-Oriented, Interpreted, and Dynamic" were the guiding concepts for developing Java programming. James Gosling, referred to as the father of Java, created the programming language in 1995.

Java is being employed in games, e-business solutions, mobile devices, internet programming, and more. The following list of key details explains Java's history.

 

 1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton

 

started work on the Java programming language in June 1991. Green Team is the name of a small group of solar engineers. 

2) It was initially created for tiny embedded systems found in electronic devices like set-top boxes.

3) To begin with, the file's name was "Greentalk" by James Gosling, and its extension was.gt.

4) Following that, it was renamed Oak and created as a component of the Green project.

5) Why Oak? Many nations, like the United States, France, Germany, Romania, etc., have chosen the oak as their national tree because it is a symbol of strength.
6) Because Oak Technologies had already registered the name as a trademark, it was changed to "Java" in 1995.

Why was Java Programming given the name?

7) Why did they decide to call the Java language its name? The group came together to select a new name. The adjectives "dynamic," "revolutionary," "Silk," "jolt," and "DNA," among others, were suggested. They desired a name that captured the spirit of the technology: it had to be novel, energetic, lively, cool, original, easy to spell, and enjoyable to say.

Java and Silk were two of the top options, according to James Gosling. The majority of the team members selected Java over alternative names because Java was so distinctive.

Indonesian island Java is where the first coffee was grown (called Java coffee). That is an espresso bean of some sort. James Gosling chose the name Java while enjoying a cup of coffee close to his workplace.

Java Version History

Many java versions have been released till now. The current stable release of Java is Java SE 10.

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 (11th Dec 2006)
9. Java SE 7 (28th July 2011)
10. Java SE 8 (18th Mar 2014)
11. Java SE 9 (21st Sep 2017)
12. Java SE 10 (20th Mar 2018)
13. Java SE 11 (September 2018)
14. Java SE 12 (March 2019)
15. Java SE 13 (September 2019)
16. Java SE 14 (Mar 2020)
17. Java SE 15 (September 2020)
18. Java SE 16 (Mar 2021)
19. Java SE 17 (September 2021)
20. Java SE 18 (to be released by March 2022)

Since Java SE 8 release, the Oracle corporation follows a pattern in which every even version is release in March month and an odd version released in September month.