The history of java: James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth and Ed Frank first began the Java language project in 1991 at Sun Microsystem. Java was originally designed for interactive television but after some time it became more advanced for the digital cable television industry at that time. The name of Java was first given as Oak because the Oak tree was present outside the Gosling office. Later the project went by the name Green and finally decided to JAVA, from Java Coffee.
What is Java? : Java is a programming language that is used to develop web sites and software. Java is a compiled and interpreted language.
Why has the Java language become popular?: Java is a popular language because of its multiple features.
- It is very simple as compared to C and C++ because it omits complex concepts such as pre-processor, pointers, operator overloading etc.
2. It is an object-oriented programming language. It supports all the object-oriented concepts such as Object, Class, Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Abstraction etc.
3. It is distributed. The Java programs under the roof of single software can be distributed over the network.
4. Java provides a multithreading concept. It means multiple tasks executed simultaneously by a single application.
5. High Performance: Java provides several high-performance features such as multithreading, and JIT(Just In Time Compilation) which improves its performance drastically.
6. Java uses both compiled as well as interpreters source code first transformed into a byte code by the compiler and after that bytecode transformed into a Machine code by interpreters.
7 . Java is platform-independent, dynamic, robust and secure.