Introduction J ava is a versatile and widely-used programming language which was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in the year 1995 .It is platform independent language, readability, and object-oriented nature.
History Firstly, it was called " Greentalk " by James Gosling, and the file extension was . gt. After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project In 1995 , Oak was renamed as " Java " because it was already a trademark by Oak Technologies.
Features of Java : Simple Object-Oriented Platform Independent High Performance Portable Dynamic
Java Basics 6 How Java Works Java's platform independence is achieved by the use of the Java Virtual Machine A Java program consists of one or more files with a .java extension these are plain old text files When a Java program is compiled the .java files are fed to a compiler which produces a .class file for each .java file The .class file contains Java bytecode. Bytecode is like machine language, but it is intended for the Java Virtual Machine not a specific chip such as a Pentium or PowerPC chip
Java Version History There are many java versions : JDK Alpha and Beta (1995) JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan, 1996) JDK 1.1 (19th Feb, 1997) J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec, 1998) J2SE 1.3 (8th May, 2000) J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb, 2002) J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep, 2004) Java SE 6 (11th Dec, 2006) Java SE 7 (28th July, 2011)