Java Programming Language Project was started by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton in June 1991 under Sun Microsystems, In starting the project name was called as Oak . After some time the project name changed as Green and finally as Java. First Project using Java was to make a set-top box name of that project was oak which was in-front of the office, This project was started by Sun Microsystems.Gosling designed Java Project with the help of C & C++ type Syntax that was familiar by both system and application programmer.
First Release (Publicly) of Java was Java Version 1.0 by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Java Consist a very great feature that support "Write once, Run anywhere" (WORA). It means Write the Java source and compile, after compilation a bytecode is generate that can be run on any platform which support Java using JVM (Java Virtual Machine). With the Sun Microsystems release the "Hot Java", It is a browser which supports full feature of Java Web Programming (Java EE). In November 2013, Java release as free and open-source software (FOSS). under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). After Some time in May 2007, Sun Microsystems Makes available all source code free under Free Software/Open Source Distribution, During the 2009-2010, Sun Microsystems handover this project to Oracle Corporation's. on April 2010 James Gosling resigned from Oracle.
Version history of The Java
Version Name
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Date Release
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JDK 1.0
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January 21,1995
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JDK 1.1
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February 19, 1997
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J2SE 1.2
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December 8, 1998
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J2SE 1.3
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May 8, 2000
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J2SE 1.4
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February 6, 2002
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J2SE 5.0
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September 30, 2004
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Java SE 6
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December 11, 2006
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Java SE 7
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July 28, 2011
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Java SE 8
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March 18, 2014
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