Before starting to learn Java, let us plunge into its history and see how the language originated in 1990, sun microsystems inc. (US) has conceived a project to develop software for consumer electronic devices that could be controlled by a remote this project was called the Stealth project but later its name was changed to Green Project.
in January 1991, Bill Joy, James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton, and several others met in Aspen Colorado to discuss this project Mike Sheridan was to focus on business development; Patrick Naughton was to begin work on the graphics system, and James Gosling was to identify the proper programming language for the project Gosling thought C and C++ could be used to develop the project. But the problem he faced with them is that they were system-dependent languages and hence could not be used on various processors. Which the electronic devices might use. So he started developing a new language that was completely system independent. This language was initially called oak since this name was registered by some other company, later it was changed to Java.
why the name Java? James Gosling and his team members were consuming a lot of coffee while developing this language. They felt that they were able to develop a better language because of the good quality coffee they consumed. So the coffee had its own role in developing this language and good quality coffee was exported to the entire world from a place called 'Java Island' and hence they fixed the name of the place for the language as Java. Thus the symbol for Java language is coffee cup and saucer.
By September of 1994, Naughton and Jonathan Payne started writing webRunner--a java based web browser which was later renamed as HotJava by October 1994, HotJava was stable, and was demonstrated to Sun executives Hotjava was the first browser having the capabilities of executing applets that are programs designed to run dynamically on the internet this time Java potential in the context of the worldwide web was recognized.
Sun formally announced java and HotJava at the SunWorld conference in 1995. Soon after, Netscape Inc. Announced that it would incorporate java support in its browser Netscape Navigator. Later, Microsoft also announced that they would support java in their Internet Explorer Web Browser, Further solidifying java's role in the world Wide Web. On January 23rd, 1996. JDK 1. version was released. Today more than 9 million developers use java and more than 4 billion electronics devices, including mobile phones and TV's run on java. Thus, Java pervaded the world
