History of Java is pretty interesting. Java was originally created with interactive television, but it was too advanced technology for the digital cable television industries at the time.
The Java team (also known as the Green Team ) started this project to create a language for digital devices such as set-top boxes and televisions. but it was well-suited to internet programming.
After that, Netscape incorporated Java technology.
In 1995, James Gosling created the Java programming language but the java project was started in the early 1990s by James Gosling and his colleagues.
Java is develop with the concept of Simple, Robust, Secure, Portable, Platform independent,Multithreaded and Dynamic. Below are the some point about java history
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James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton started the Java language project in June 1991
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Java was originally design for interactive television, but it was too advanced technology for the digital cable television industry at the time.
Why does Java have the name "Oak" ?
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The java language was named Oak after an oak tree that is outside Gosling's office at the time. The project was rename to Java after Java coffee, an Indonesian coffee.
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Many european countries, including France, Germany, the United States of America, Romania, and others, have chosen oak as their national tree.
Why is Java called "Java programming" ?
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During the naming of java, green team team gathered to decide on a new name that should be "Dynamic," "revolutionary," "Silk," "jolt," "DNA," etc.
They needed a name that show the sense of technology,
energetic, and simple and fun to speak and pronounce.
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As James Gosling says "Java was one of the top choices, along with Silk" Since Java was so unique and simple, the majority of the team members preferred it to over other names.
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Java is an island in Indonesian where first coffee was grown (called Java coffee). It's a kind of espresso bean. James Gosling choose the name Java while enjoying a cup of coffee near his office.
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Java was selected as one of ten Best Products of 1995 in Time magazine's
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In 1995, Sun released Java 1.0, the first public implementation. Java is claimed Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA) means platform independent i.e reusable for popular platforms at no cost.
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Sun Microsystem released much of its Java virtual machine (JVM) of Java as free and open source software on November 13, 2006, under the conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Sun Microsystem completed the process on May 8, 2007, making all of Java's core code free and open-source, with the exception of a small part of code for which Sun did not own the copyright.
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Java is now utilised in Windows programmes, Web applications, enterprise applications, mobile apps, and cards, among other things. Java gets better with each new version.
Java Version History
As of September 2021, Java 8, 11 and 17 are supported as Long-Term Support (LTS) i.e stable versions. Java SE 21 will also be Long-Term Support (LTS) will launch on September 2023. Major release versions of Java, along with their release dates are mention below
Updated Till 25th March 2023
| Java Version |
Date |
| JDK Beta |
1995 |
| JDK 1.0 |
23rd January 1996 |
| JDK 1.1 |
19th February 1997 |
| J2SE 1.2 |
8th December 1998 |
| J2SE 1.3 |
8th May 2000 |
| J2SE 1.4 |
6th February 2002 |
| J2SE 5.0 |
30th September 2004 |
| Java SE 6 |
11th December 2006 |
| Java SE 7 |
28th July 2011 |
| Java SE 8 (LTS) |
18th March 2014 |
| Java SE 9 |
21th September 2017 |
| Java SE 10 |
20th March 2018 |
| Java SE 11 (LTS) |
25th September 2018 |
| Java SE 12 |
19th March 2019 |
| Java SE 13 |
17th September 2019 |
| Java SE 14 |
17th March 2020 |
| Java SE 15 |
15th September 2020 |
| Java SE 16 |
16th March 2021 |
| Java SE 17 (LTS) |
14th September 2021 |
| Java SE 18 |
22nd March 2022 |
| Java SE 19 |
20th September 2022 |
| Java SE 20 |
21th March 2023 |
| Java SE 21 |
September 2023 |
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