Java or formally known as Oak is now considered as one of the top programming methodologies to come about in the programming world. It is an object-oriented programming language was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. The language derives most of its syntax from other objected oriented languages like C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities.
It was started as a small project which was called “Oak” by James Gosling in 1991. The first public implementation was done in the year 1995 which was called Java 1.0. At that moment of time it offered the following new attributes to the programming world.
• WORA: Ability to “Write Once, Run Anywhere” providing no cost runtimes on popular platforms.
• Security: It was configurable, allowing network and file access to be restricted.
The original compliers virtual machines and class libraries were developed by Sun from 1995.But as of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, most of their Java technologies as free software under the GNU General Public License. Some organizations have also developed alternative implementations of these technologies, like the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath etc.
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