History of Java Programming


The Java programming language the first born of The Green Project, which runs for 18 months, from early 1991 to summer 1992. The project is not using a version called Oak. The project was initiated by Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, James Gosling and Bill Joy, along with nine other programmers from Sun Microsystems. One result of this project is the Duke mascot created by Joe Palrang. 

Project meeting took place in an office building Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Around the summer of 1992 the project was closed by generating a Java program's first Oak, which is intended to control a device with touch screen technology (touch screen), like on a PDA today. This new technology named "* 7" (Seven Star). 

After the era of Star Seven completed, a subsidiary of Cable Tv interested plus some people from the project The Green Project. They focus their activities on an office space at 100 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. 


The new company is getting ahead: the number of employees increased in a short time from 13 to 70 people. At this time span was also determined using the Internet as a medium that bridges the work and ideas between them. In the early 1990s, the Internet is still a stub, which is used only in academic circles and the military. 


They make the browser (browser) Mosaic as the basis for beginning to create the first Java browser called Web Runner, inspired by 1980s film, Blade Runner. In the development of the first release, the Web Runner renamed Hot Java. 


In about March 1995, for the first time the Java source code version 1.0a2 opened. Their success was followed with news for the first time in the newspaper San Jose Mercury News on May 23, 1995.
Unfortunately there are divisions among them one day at 04.00 in a hotel room Sheraton Palace. Three of the main leaders of the project, Eric Schmidt and George Paolini from Sun Microsystems along with Marc Andreessen, Netscape form. 


Oak name, taken from an oak tree that grows in front of the workspace window "Father of Java", James Gosling. Oak name is not used for release versions of Java as an other software already registered with a trademark, so take the name of his successor to "Java". The name is taken from the ground pure coffee beans directly from (black coffee) Gosling's favorite. It is said that this coffee comes from Java. So the name of the Java programming language is derived from the word Java (Java is the English language for Java).

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