Thursday 15 December 2016

Java History : Who, When and How the Java Programming is Developed

Java is a simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded, and dynamic language. Today Java is not only used as Internet Language, but is also invisible force behind many of the applications and devices that we use in our day-to-day lives, From mobile phones to handheld devices, games and navigation systems to e-business solution, Java can be found everywhere! It has really wide range of applications, much wider than that of C and C++. 

In 1990, James Gosling and Patrick Naughton of Sun Microsystems, decided to create a pure object oriented development environment that would be based on C++, but much easier to learn and use than C++. Initially they named their project "Green Project" and their team was called "Green team". Other major contributors to the development of Java language were Mike Sheridan, Chris Warth and Ed Frank. Also Bill Joy, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan Payne, Frank Yellin, and Tim Lindholm were the key players. The team led by James Gosling worked and created the programming language that revolutionized our world -Java! Firstly, it was called "Green talk" by James Gosling and file extension was .gt., After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project. The original name of JAVA is OAK, Which is a tree name. In the year 1995, OAK was revised and developed software called JAVA. Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies. Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced. 
The Green team demonstrated their new language with an interactive, handheld home entertainment controller that was originally targeted at digital cable television industry, For the green team members, it was an advance concept at that time. But, it was suited for internet programming which was just starting to take off. When Java was developed, nobody thought of it for a platform like Internet, Instead, the primary motivation was the need for a platform independent language that could be used to create software to be embedded in various consumer electronic devices, such as microwave ovens and remote controls. Later, Java technology as incorporated by Netscape. 
Java is more than just another programming language. It is both a language and a platform for developing applications to run on the Internet or in corporate intranet environments. Java is a Simple and yet Powerful object oriented programming language, well suited to designing various kinds of applications including the special web applications i.e. the applications that run on internet, called applets.

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