Java is general purpose object oriented programming language,which .is developed by Sun Microsystems in 1991.Java was originally called Oak by James Gosling ,one of the inventors of the language,Java was actually designed for the software development of consumers electronic devices like TVs,, VCRs,etc.The goal has a impact on the development project to make the language simple portable and highly reliable.The project team discovered that the languages in the market like C ,C++ had limitations in terms of reliability and portability. So the project team pick up those features of C and C++ which are good and leave those features which are causing security and other problems.So a new programming language was developed and released in the market.
Here is some Java Milestones :-
| 1990 | Sun Microsystems decided to develop software that could be used to manipulate consumer electronic devices.A team headed by James Gosling was formed to undertake this task. |
| 1991 | After exploring the programming languages which were popular in the market like C ,C++ the team announced a new language named as "Oak". |
| 1992 | The team (named as Green Project team by Sun Microsystems) demonstrated the application of there new language to control the home appliances using a hand held device. |
| 1993 | The world wide web appear on the internet that transformed the text based interaction into a graphical environment.The team come up with the idea of development of small tiny programs(applets) using new language which they have developed("Oak").These new programs can run on any type of computer connected to the internet. |
| 1994 | The team developed a new web browser called "HotJava" to run applet programs on internet. |
| 1995 | The language "Oak" was renamed as "Java" due to legal issues |
| 1996 | Java established itself as a leader for Internet programming as well as general purpose ,object oriented programming language .In this year the Java Development Kit 1.0 was released. |
| 1997 | Sun has released Java Development Kit 1.1(JDK 1.1). |
| 1998 | Sun releases Java 2 with version 1.2 (SDK 1.2). |
| 1999 | Sun releases Java 2 Platform (J2SE) and (J2EE). |
| 2000 | J2SE with SDK 1.3 was released by Sun . |
| 2002 | J2SE with SDK 1.4 was released. |
| 2004 | J2SE with SDK 5.0 (instead of JDK 1.5 ) was released. |
| 2006 | J2SE with SDK 6.0 was released. |
| 2011 | J2SE with SDK 7.0 was released. |
| 2014 | J2SE with SDK 8.0 will be released. |
| 2016 | J2SE with SDK 9.0 will released. |
