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History of Java

History of Java

Java was developed by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank, and Mike Sheridan in 1991 at Sun Microsystems. It was initially called ‘oak’ but was renamed as Java in 1995.

Oak is a pattern of strength and chosen as a national tree of many countries like the U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania, etc. In 1995, Oak was renamed as “JAVA” because it was earlier a trademark by Oak Technologies. Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called coffee).

Java Release History

The latest version Java SE 12 has been released on March 19, 2019. The latest Java LTS release is Java SE 11.

  • JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)
  • JDK 1.0 (January 23, 1996)
  • JDK 1.1 (February 19, 1997)
  • J2SE 1.2 (December 08, 1998)
  • J2SE 1.3 (May 08, 2000)
  • J2SE 1.4 (February 06, 2002)
  • J2SE 5.0 (September 30, 2004)
  • Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)
  • Java SE 7 (July 28, 2011)
  • Java SE 8 LTS (March 18, 2014)
  • Java SE 9 (September 21, 2017)
  • Java SE 10 (March 20, 2018)
  • Java SE 11 LTS ( September 25, 2018)
  • Java SE 12 (March 19, 2019)
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