Java Development history

Today I inadvertently see the "new features expected Java 9", recall that we are still in the Java 6,java 7 are still trying to keep up with the pace ah. The pursuit of stability, but the loss of new features.

Whim, why not summarize the course of Java, from the beginning of the birth of Java to the present Java8 and the expected Java9, what has changed, what new features have been added. Information needs to be collected, will be slowly updated to improve, from a holistic perspective of Java development process:

May 23, 1995, the Java language was born;

January 1996, the first jdk-jdk1.0 was born;

In April 1996, 10 of the most important operating system vendors affirmed that Java technology would be embedded in their products;

In September 1996, about 83,000 Web pages were created using Java technology;

February 18, 1997, JDK1.1 released;

April 2, 1997, the JavaOne meeting, the participation of more than 10,000 people, creating a record of the world's similar conference size;

In September 1997, Javadeveloperconnection community members exceeded 100,000;

In February 1998, JDK1.1 was downloaded more than 2,000,000 times;

December 8, 1998, JAVA2 Enterprise Platform, Java Cloud Publishing;

In June 1999, Sun released three versions of Java: Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and mini Edition;

May 8, 2000, JDK1.3 released;

May 29, 2000, JDK1.4 released;

Nokia announced June 5, 2001 that it will sell 100 million Java-enabled handsets by 2003;

September 24, 2001, j2ee1.3 released;

February 26, 2002, j2se1.4 released, since the Java computing capacity has been significantly improved;

September 30, 2004 18:00pm,j2se1.5 released as another milestone in the development of the Java language. To indicate the importance of this version, j2se1.5 renamed Java SE 5.0;

In June 2005, the JavaOne conference was held and Sun disclosed Java SE 6. At this point, various versions of Java have been renamed to remove the number "2": the name of the Java ee,j2se renamed to Java Se,j2me renamed Java ME;

December 2006, Sun Company released JRE6.0;

April 7, 2009 Google APP engine starts to support Java;[8]

Oracle acquires Sun for $7.4 billion on April 20, 2009. Access to Java Copyright;

In November 2010, because Oracle was unfriendly to the Java community, Apache threatened to quit JCP;

July 28, 2011, Oracle released the official version of java7.0;

March 19, 2014, Oracle releases the official version of java8.0.

JAVA5 characteristics; (to be updated)

JAVA6 characteristics; (to be updated)

JAVA7 characteristics; (to be updated)

JAVA8 characteristics; (to be updated)

JAVA9 characteristics; (to be updated)

Java Development history