Friday, February 13, 2015
History of Java Language
The Java language project was started by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Chris Warth, Patrick Naughton and Ed Frank in June 1991 at Sun Microsystems. Many more people contributed for this project. They are Bill Joy, Jonathan Payne, Frank Yellin, Arthur van Hoff and Tim Lindholm.
The initial aim of the project was to create a programming tool that can be used to control an electronic device remotely.
The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Goslings office; later on it was named as Green. Finally the language renamed as Java because during this project the team had consumed a lot of coffee which was imported from island named as Java. This is also the reason why Java has its logo as a cup of coffee.
Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java publicly as Java 1.0 in 1995. As time passed many new versions were released. The latest Java version is 1.7 which is also called as Java 7.
Java has many interesting features like "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), it is platform independent, secure and robust. These features will be discussed in detail in the next article.
There were five primary goals for creating the Java language
1. It should be "simple, object-oriented and familiar"
2. It should be "robust and secure"
3. It should be "architecture-neutral and portable"
4. It should execute with "high performance"
5. It should be "interpreted, threaded, and dynamic"
If I have missed anything in this tutorial then please mention it in the comment section.
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