History of JAVA | Vandna Sharma: Another name of JAVA

JAVA | Vandna Sharma: Another of JAVA

Java is a programming language created by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1991. The first publicly available version of Java (Java 1.0) was released in 1995. Sun Microsystems was acquired by the Oracle Corporation in 2010. Oracle has now the steermanship for Java. Over time new enhanced versions of Java have been released.

The current version of Java is Java 1.7 which is also known as Java 7. From the Java programming language the Java platform evolved. The Java platform allows software developers to write program code in other languages than the Java programming language which still runs on the Java virtual machine.

The Java platform is usually associated with the Java virtual machine and the Java core libraries.

Timeline 

January 15, 1991  "Stealth Project" (as named by Scott McNealy) brainstorming meeting in Aspen with Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Wayne Rosing, Mike Sheridan, James Gosling and Patrick Naughton. February 1, 1991 Gosling, Sheridan, and Naughton begin work in earnest. Naughton focuses on "Aspen" graphics system, Gosling on programming language ideas, Sheridan on business development. June 1991 Gosling starts working on the "Oak" interpreter, which, several years later (following a trademark search), is renamed "Java." August 19, 1991 Green team demonstrates basic user interface ideas and graphics system to Sun co-founders Scott McNealy and Bill Joy. Summer 1992 Massive amounts of hacking on Oak, and related components. October 1, 1992 Wayne Rosing joins from SunLabs (which had formed in July 1990) and assumes management of the team. March 15, 1993 The development team, now incorporated as FirstPerson, focuses on interactive television after learning about Time Warner's RFP for its interactive cable TV trial in Orlando, FL. April, 1993 NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first graphical browser for the Internet, is released. June 14, 1993 Time Warner goes with SGI for its interactive cable TV trial, despite acknowledged superiority of Sun technology and assurances in mid-April that Sun won the deal. Summer, 1993 Naughton flies 300,000 miles selling Oak to anyone involved in consumer electronics and interactive television; meanwhile, the rate at which people are gaining access to the Internet reaches breakneck speed. August, 1993 After months of promising negotiations with 3DO to provide set-top box OS, 3DO president Trip Hawkins offers to buy the technology outright. McNealy refuses, and deal falls through. September, 1993 Arthur Van Hoff joins team, originally to do application development environment aimed at interactive television; ends up doing mostly language design. February 17, 1994 Alternative FirstPerson business plan for doing CD-ROM/online multimedia platform based on Oak presented to Sun executives to very mixed reviews. April 25, 1994 Sun Interactive created, half of FirstPerson employees leave to join it. June, 1994 "Liveoak" project started. Designed by Bill Joy to use Oak for a big small operating system project. July, 1994 Naughton reduces the "Liveoak" project's scope to simply retargeting Oak at the Internet after writing a throwaway implementation of a Web browser in a long weekend hack. September 16, 1994 Jonathon Payne and Naughton start writing "WebRunner," a Mosaic-like browser later renamed "HotJava" September 29, 1994 HotJava prototype is first demonstrated to Sun executives. Autumn, 1994 Van Hoff implements Java compiler in Java. (Gosling had previously implemented it in C.) May 23, 1995 Sun formally announces Java and HotJava at SunWorld '95. May 23, 1995 Netscape announces its intention to license Java for use in Netscape browser. September 21, 1995 Sun-sponsored Java development conference held in New York City. September 25, 1995 Sun announces expanded alliance with Toshiba and a joint project to develop remote information retrieval products which incorporate Java. September 26, 1995 Sunsoft announces suite of business-oriented development products incorporating Java. October 30, 1995 Oracle announces its WebSystem suite of WWW software which includes a Java-compatible browser. October 30, 1995 At the Internet World Conference in Boston, Lotus Development Corp., Intuit Inc., Borland International Inc., Macromedia Inc.,and Spyglass Inc. announce plans to license Java. December 4, 1995 Sun and Netscape announce Javascript, a scripting language based on the Java language which is designed to be accessible to non-programmers. December 4, 1995 Sun, Netscape and Silicon Graphics announce new software alliance to develop Internet interactivity tools. December 4, 1995 Borland, Mitsubishi Electronics, Sybase and Symatec annouce plans to license Java. December 6, 1995 IBM and Adobe announce licensing agreement with Sun for use of Java. December 7, 1995 Microsoft announces plans to license Java during announcement of suite of new Internet products, including Visual Basic Script.