History about Java

James Gosling

History of Java is very Interesting. Java was originally developed by James Gosling in 1995 at Sun Microsystems. Firstly this was known as "GreenTalk" because this was initiated in June 1991 by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan and Patrick Naughton. This team was known as green team of Sun Microsystems.

Then after, it is known as OAK(Tree). Because OAK is a symbol of strength. And in 1995 the official name released by James Gosling was "Java".

And official JDK 1.0 version was released in January 23rd, 1996.

Java is a Object Oriented programming (OOPS) and High Level Language.

What is Java

1. Java is a programming language and a platform.

2. Java is a high level, robust, secured and object-oriented programming language.

Platform: Any hardware or software environment in which a program runs, is known as a platform. Since Java has its own runtime environment (JRE) and API, it is called platform.

Java Example 

class Simple{

   public static void main(String args[]){ 

     System.out.println("Hello Java");   

    }

  }