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Java History

Java programming language was made by James Gosling and released in 1995.
 
James Gosling started Java language project in 1991. It’s organized mainly for digital devices like set-top boxes. James Gosling team called it as a Green Team. The language, initially called Oak, as Oak tree is a symbol of strength and strong. It’s also a national tree of many other countries but it is already a trade mark of Oak Technologies, because they changed that name “JAVA”.
 
The question arises, why Green Team member choose Java name for a programming language?
 
James Gosling and other team members choose Java because they want something, which can cast the features of the language. Due to this, why they choose Java name and all the team members like that name. Java is the first coffee name, which was produced in the island of Indonesia. Java is developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems engineers and released in 1995. Now, it is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.
 
Sun engineers released the first version JDK 1.0 in January 23, 1996. The latest version release of the Java Standard Edition is Java SE 8.
 
Java Versions

There are many Java versions, which were already released.
  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).
Summary

Thus, we learnt, James Gosling started Java language project in 1991. It is organized mainly for digital devices like set-top boxes and also learn Java versions.