History of Java

History of Java...

There were three members team by the name Green Team. James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton, they developed in June 1991. They just want to develop something for small devices like set-top boxes and televisions. Earlier it was not JAVA, it was Green Talk and file extension was .gt rather than .java. Next Version was by the name Oak. Oak is a symbol of strength and known as national tree of many of countries like USA, France etc.

After this in 1995 Oak was updated to JAVA as Oak it was already a registered name for Oak Technologies.

Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).

Java lifecycle

1. JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)
2. JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan, 1996)
3. JDK 1.1 (19th Feb, 1997)
4. J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec, 1998)
5. J2SE 1.3 (8th May, 2000)
6. J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb, 2002)
7. J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep, 2004)
8. Java SE 6 (11th Dec, 2006)
9. Java SE 7 (28th July, 2011)
10. Java SE 8 (18th March, 2014)