Green Team Project

Java was developed by a team of computer professionals under the guidance of James Gosling at Sun Microsystems.  Java development project had been started to develop software to embed into television or any other digital devices for interaction purpose.  The team members of java development project are known as Green Team.  The project began in June 1991.

Why the name ‘java’?

The team initially selected ‘oak’ as the name of their programming language since oak is a symbol of strength and also honored as national tree of many countries like USA, Germany etc.

Later in 1995 the name changed to ‘java’ since ‘oak’ is already taken as trade mark by Oak Technologies.

Java is the name of an island of Indonesia where the first coffee was produced.  The name ‘java’ is selected by James Gosling while having coffee.

In 1995, Sun Micro System the developer of java is taken over by Oracle.

Java is simple, scalable, object oriented, general purpose, case sensitive and strongly typed programming language.

Features of JAVA Language:

1. Platform Independent: Java is both software and hardware platform independent.
2. Object Oriented: pure object oriented language which doesn’t allow methods without classes and data without objects.
3. Easy to Learn: the syntax of java looks similar to C/C++
4. Robust(reliable): java eliminated all complex concepts found in C/C++ like pointers, multiple inheritance and operator overloading. It also provides automatic de-allocation of memory and powerful exception handling features.
5. Secure
6. Multi-Threaded
7. Dynamic
8. High-performance