History of JAVA

  • History of JAVA
JAVA was invented by James Gosling. The history of JAVA can be 

tabulated as below.
Year
Development
1990
Sun Microsystems decided to develop software for consumer electronic devices (Green Project).
1991
New language Oak was announced.
1992
Green Project team demonstrated the application of their new language to control a list of home appliances using hand-held devices with a tiny touch sensitive screen.
1993
The World Wide Web (WWW) appeared on the Internet. Web applets were developed using this language that could run on all type of computers connected to Internet.
1994
Web browser called "Hot Java" was developed to run applets on Internet.
1995
Oak renamed to Java. Popular companies like Microsoft and Netscape announces their support to Java.
1996
Java became Internet programming language as well general purpose object-oriented programming language.

  • Java versions and year
Version
Year Of Release
JDK Alpha and Beta (Web Runner)
1995
JDK 1.0
January 23,1996
JDK 1.1
February 19,1997
J2SE 1.2
December 8,1998
J2SE 1.3
May 8,2000
VERSION
YEAR
J2SE 1.4
February 6,2002
J2SE 5.0
September 30,2004
Java SE 6
December 11,2006

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