The history of Java programming language

• First Started as a project in 1991 named Green project by employees of  Sun Micro System including James Goesling (father of Java)with Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton and other developers.
• Firstly, it was called Greentalk and file extension was .gt.
• Afterwards, this project(Java)  was called oak by James Gosling in June 1991. The name was chosen as the oak tree is a symbol of strength, the national tree of many counties(U.S.A, France, Germany, Romania etc..) and one was right outside of  Gosling’s office

• Then in 1995, the team had to change the name of the language as “Oak”  had already been trademarked by Oak technologies.
• Then, the following names were  suggested including: “dynamic”,  “revolutionary”, “Silk”, “jolt” “DNA” etc..
• According to James Goesling,  “Java” and “Silk” were the top choices. Since Java appeared unique, most of the team preferred java. Therefore, this project was named “Java”.
• Java is a place in  Indonesia where the first coffee was produced (called java coffee).
• Java is the full name and is not an acronym.
• First public java program was released in 1995.

• On November 13 of 2006, Sun released Java as a free and open source software (FOSS).
• Oracle Corporation took over the sun Micro systems in during 2009-2010.
• Java had many goals. One of the main goals was   ‘Write Once, Run Anywhere”

Nowadays Java language is used in many areas such as software product,  mobile device software, mobile apps, games, e-business internet programming etc..

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