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Java

• Is an programming language and a platform
• High level, robust, secured and object-oriented programming language
• Types - Standalone,Web,Enterprise and Mobile applications
• James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.
•  Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.
• 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.

• Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and choosen as a national tree of many countries like U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania etc.
  6) In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies
•  Why they chooses java name for java language? The team gathered to choose a new name.  The suggested words were "dynamic", "revolutionary", "Silk", "jolt", "DNA" etc. They wanted  something that reflected the essence of the technology: revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool,  unique, and easy to spell and fun to say.
•  According to James Gosling "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk". Since java was so  unique, most of the team members preferred java.

• Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).
  Notice that Java is just a name not an acronym.
  Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Micro systems (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.
  In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.
• JDK 1.0 released in(January 23, 1996).