HISTORY OF JAVA

HISTORY OF JAVA:

Java is a programming language created by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1991. The first publicly available version of Java (Java 1.0) was released in 1995.

Sun Microsystems was acquired by the Oracle Corporation in 2010. Oracle has now the steermanship for Java.

Over time new enhanced versions of Java have been released. The current version of Java is Java 1.7 which is also known as Java 7.

From the Java programming language the Java platform evolved. The Java platform allows software developers to write program code in other languages than the Java programming language and still runs on the Java virtual machine. The Java platform is usually associated with the Java virtual machine and the Java core libraries.

 Java and Open Source:

In 2006 Sun started to make Java available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Oracle continues this project called OpenJDK.