JAVA
Introduction
Java is simple and easy language to learn. It is general purpose object oriented programming language. Developed by Sun Micro system in 1995.
History of Java
Why Java started? How Java started?
In order to develop a program which can be executed in any platform that is platform independent and embedded software that is the program code for a particular hardware or electronic devices, Sun Micro system programmers started developing Java.
James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, mike Sherdan and Ed Frank were a team of programmers in the Sun Microsystem. This team is also known as Green Project Team. They designed java with a C/C++ style syntax that system and application programmer will find familiar.
Java project was initiated in 1991 by Green Program Team, initially it was named as 'Oak'. James Gosling named it as oak after an Oak tree stood outside his office, later the project named has 'Green', further, it was named as Java. It was suggested by one of the team member when they were sipping Java coffee which is a type of Indonesia coffee.
Finally, the project was realized in 1995 as Java with 'Write Once, Run Anywhere' [WORA] that is platform independent and embedded software has major property.
History of version.
- JDK Beta - 1995.
- JDK 1.0 - 1996.
- JDK 1.1 - 1997.
- J2SE 1.2 - 1998.
- J2SE 1.3 - 2000.
- J2SE 1.4 - 2002.
- J2SE 5.0 - 2004.
- Java SE 6 - 2006.
- Java SE 7 - 2011.
- Java SE 8 - 2014.
- Java SE 9 - 2017.
- Java SE 10 - 2018, March.
- Java SE 11 - 2018, September.
- Java SE 12 - 2019, March.
- Java SE 13 - 2019, September.
- Java SE 14 - 2020, March.
In September 2017, Mr. Chief Architect of Java platform, proposed to change the release train to 'one feature release every six month'.
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