Java history is interesting to know. The history of java starts from Green Team. Java team members (also known as Green Team), initiated a revolutionary task to develop a language for digital devices such as set-top boxes, televisions etc.
For the green team members, it was an advance concept at that time.
But, it was suited for internet programming. Later, Java technology as
incorporated by Netscape.
Currently, Java is used in internet programming, mobile devices, games, e-business solutions etc.
There are given the major points that describes the history of java.
1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.
2) Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.
3) Firstly, it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling and file extension was .gt.
4) After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.
Why "Oak" name
5) Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and choosen as a national tree of many countries like U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania etc.
6) In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies.
Why "Java" name
7) Why had they choosen java name for java language? The team
gathered to choose a new name. The suggested words were "dynamic",
"revolutionary", "Silk", "jolt", "DNA" etc.
They wanted something that reflected the essence of the technology:
revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool, unique, and easy to spell and fun
to say.
According to James Gosling "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk". Since java was so unique, most of the team members preferred java.
8) Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).
9) Notice that Java is just a name not an acronym.
10) Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which
is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.
11) In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.
12) JDK 1.0 released in(January 23, 1996).
Java Releases
- Initial Java Versions 1.0 and 1.1 was released in the year 1996 for Linux, Solaris, Mac and Windows.
- Java version 1.2 (Commonly called as java 2) was released in the year 1998.
- Java Version 1.3 codename Kestrel was released in the year 2000.
- Java Version 1.4 codename Merlin was released in the year 2002.
- Java Version 1.5/Java SE 5 codename ‘Tiger’ was released in the year 2004.
- Java Version 1.6/Java SE 6 Codename ‘Mustang’ was released in the year 2006.
- Java Version 1.7/Java SE 7 Codename ‘Dolphin’ was released in the year 2011.
- Java Version 1.8 is the current stable release which was released this year (2015).
Five Goals which were taken into consideration while developing Java:
- Keep it simple, familiar and object oriented.
- Keep it Robust and Secure.
- Keep it architecture-neural and portable.
- Executable with High Performance.
- Interpreted, threaded and dynamic.
Why we call it Java 2, Java 5, Java 6, Java 7 and Java 8, not their actual version number which 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8?
Java 1.0 and 1.1 were Java. When Java 1.2 was released it had a lots
of changes and marketers/developers wanted a new name so they called it
Java 2 (J2SE), remove the numeric before decimal.
This was not the condition when Java 1.3 and Java 1.4 were released
hence they were never called Java 3 and Java 4, but they were still Java
2.
When Java 5 was released, once again it was having a lots of changes
for the developer/marketers and need a new name. The next number in
sequence was 3, but calling Java 1.5 as Java 3 was confusing hence a
decision was made to keep the naming as per version number and till now
the legacy continues.
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