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An overview of the evolution of java, from its inception in 1990 by sun microsystems as a language for consumer electronic devices, through its development and renaming to java in 1995, and its subsequent features and releases up to j2ee in 2004. Java is a compile and interpreted, object-oriented, robust, secure, distributed, and high-performance programming language.
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Object oriented programming language developed by sun micro system of USA in 1991. Originally called by Oak James Gostling Java was designed for the development of software for consumer electronic devices like TV, VCR,Theater and each other electronic machines. The language simple,portable and highly reliable. The java team where included Patrick naughton discovered that the existing languages like c and c++ had limitations in terms of both reliability and portability. YEAR DEVELOPMENT 1990 Sun Microsystems decided to develop special software that could be used to manipulate consumer electronic devices. Ateam of sun micro systems programmers headed by James Goastling was formed to under take this task. 1991 The team announced a new language named “Oak”. 1992 The team known as green project team by sun demonstrated the application of their new language to control a tut of home appliances using a hand held device with a tiny touch sensitive screen. 1993 The world wide web (www) appeared on the internet and transformed the text based internet into a graphical rich environment. 1994 The team developed a web browser called “Hot Java” to locate and run applet programs on internet. 1995 Oak was renamed “Java” many popular companies including netscape and Microsoft announced their support to Java. 1996 Sun released java development kit 1. 1999 Sun releases java development kit 1.1(JDK 1.1) 1998 Sun release the Java 2 with version 1.2 of the software development kit (SDK 1.2) 1999 Sun releases Java 2 platform standard edition (J2SE) and Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 2000 J2SE with SDK 1.3 was released.
2002 J2SE with SDK 1.4 was released 2004 J2SE with JDK 5.0 (united of JDK 1.5) was released. This is known as J2SE 5.0. VI. JAVA FEATURES : Compile and interpreted Platform independent and portable Object oriented Robust and secure Distributed Familiar , simple and small Multi threaded and interactive High performance Dynamic and extensible Easy of development Scalability and performace Monitoring and manageability Desktop client Core XML support(Extensible Markup Language) Supplementary character support JDBC Row Set