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Java: History

 HISTORY OF JAVA

Java is a general-purpose and the most popular object-oriented programming language. Due to its simplicity and easy to learn features, it is the first choice of programmers today. In addition to the object oriented features, it also provides the features such as platform independence, security, multithreading, portability etc. 

Java was developed by James Gosling in the early 1990's. Firstly it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling, and the file extension was .gt. After that it was called "Oak"



Oak Tree
  Why JAVA Was Known As Oak?
Oak is a symbol of strength and chosen as a nationality tree of many countries like the U.S.A, France, Germany etc.
In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" 

Versions of Java
There are various versions of java released till now. These are


         
  1. JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)
  2. JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan 1996)
  3. JDK 1.1 (19th Feb 1997)
  4. J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec 1998)
  5. J2SE 1.3 (8th May 2000)
  6. J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb 2002)
  7. J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep 2004)
  8. Java SE 6 (11th Dec 2006)
  9. Java SE 7 (28th July 2011)
  10. Java SE 8 (18th Mar 2014)
  11. Java SE 9 (21st Sep 2017)
  12. Java SE 10 (20th Mar 2018)
  13. Java SE 11 (September 2018)
  14. Java SE 12 (March 2019)
  15. Java SE 13 (September 2019)
  16. Java SE 14 (Mar 2020)
  17. Java SE 15 (September 2020)
  18. Java SE 16 (Mar 2021)
  19. Java SE 17 (September 2021)
  20. Java SE 18 (March 2022)
Java SE 18 is the latest version of java which is  used nowadays
Extension To Save & Run Java Program
The Extension used to save and run java program is .java

Hence this is all about the history of Java Programming Language

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