In 1990, Sun anticipated that embedded systems would be in the field of future appliances, and sun set up a "Green" program led by James Golising to prepare a common control system for the next generation of home appliances.
Originally thinking of using the C + + language, but found that the language in this development environment has a lot of problems, so Golising created a new language--oak.
The advent of the Internet and browsers in the summer of 1994 not only brought the gospel to the vast majority of Internet users, but also brought new vitality to the oak language, and in the autumn of 1994 released the first browser written in the Java language, Webrunner, and later, due to trademark issues, The language is used in registration to change the name to Java.
Sun's release of Java in 1995 was followed by a huge response.
1998 Sun released the historic version of jdk1.2, which divides Java into 3 versions, J2ee,j2se,j2me. This marks the location and direction of development for Java to be determined.
2009 Oracle acquires Sun.
In November 2007, Google launched a Linux-based open-source mobile operating system, Android, which uses the Java language to write applications.
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History of the Java language