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History of Java

Java started as an internal research project at Sun Microsystems, Inc code-named Green project. It was initially named Oak by James Gosling. Later, it was renamed to Java.

The initial Java version was released in 1995. The Java language received immense response. In the booming era of the Dot-Com bubble and the World Wide Web, Java became instantly popular for its ability to create dynamic and interactive Web pages.

Major Java Versions

Java Version	Year	Description
JDK1.0	1995	The initial release of JDK1.0
JDK1.1	1997	New Features: JDBC API, RMI, AWT API, JavaBeans, etc
J2SE 1.2(Java2 Standard Edition)	1998	New Features: Java Swing API, Reflection API, Java IDL, Collection, and JIT Compiler in Sun’s JVM, etc
J2SE 1.3	2000	New Features: Hotspot JVM, RMI CORBA, JNDI API(Java Naming and Directory Interface(), JPDA(Java Platform Debugger Architecture, etc
J2SE 1.4	2002	New Features: Regular Expression, Exception chaining, Image I/O API for reading and writing images, Java Web Start, Assert keyword.
J2SE 5.0	2004	New Features: Java Generics, Autoboxing, Enumerations, Swing, Var args, Metadata etc.
Java SE 6	2006	New Features: JAX-WS, JDBC 4.0, Pluggable Annotations, Garbage collection algorithms, JVM improvements including Synchronization and Compiler performance optimizations
Java SE 7.0	2010	New Features: JVM support for dynamic language, A new library for Parallel computing on multi-core, Compressed 64-bit pointers, and Automatic resource management.

About Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc, or Sun was a famous technological company that supported open-source products. Sun acquired the popular open-source database MySQL in 2008. Later, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Popular Sun products were: