Timeline for Java development

The timeline for Java development. (Version number name Chinese name release date)
JDK 1.1.4 sparkler Gem 1997-09-12
JDK 1.1.5 Pumpkin Pumpkin 1997-12-13
JDK 1.1.6 Abigail Abigail--Women's name 1998-04-24
JDK 1.1.7 Brutus Brutus--Roman statesman and general 1998-09-28
JDK 1.1.8 Chelsea Chelsea-city name 1999-04-08
J2SE 1.2 Playground Sports Ground 1998-12-04
J2se 1.2.1 None None 1999-03-30
J2SE 1.2.2 Cricket Cricket 1999-07-08
J2SE 1.3 Kestrel American Red Falcon 2000-05-08
J2SE 1.3.1 Ladybird Ladybug 2001-05-17
J2SE 1.4.0 Merlin Grey back Falcon 2002-02-13
J2SE 1.4.1 Grasshopper Grasshopper 2002-09-16
J2SE 1.4.2 Mantis Mantis 2003-06-26
J2SE 5.0 (1.5.0) Tiger Tigers 2004-10
J2SE 6.0 (Beta) Mustang Mustang 2006-04
Java 7.0 July 28, 2011

From this table we can see a very interesting phenomenon, that is, each JDK version number is a development code representation (that is, the Chinese name in the table). And from JDK1.2.2 onwards, major versions (such as 1.3,1.4,5.0) are named after birds or mammals. Their bug fixes, such as 1.2.2,1.3.1,1.4.2, are named after insects.
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 will be embedded in their products
September 1996, About 83,000 web pages have been applied Java technology to make
February 18, 1997, JDK1.1 released
April 2, 1997, JavaOne meeting, the participation of more than 10,000 people, at the time of the global similar conference size of the record
September 1997, Javadeveloperconnection community members more than 100,000
February 1998, JDK1.1 downloaded more than 2,000,000 times
December 8, 1998, JAVA2 Enterprise platform Java EE released
June 1999, Sun releases three versions of Java: Standard, Enterprise and Mini (J2SE, Java EE, J2ME)
May 8, 2000, JDK1.3 released
May 29, 2000, JDK1.4 released
June 5, 2001, Nokia announces , by 2003 will sell 100 million Java-enabled mobile phones
September 24, 2001, j2ee1.3 released
February 26, 2002, j2se1.4 released, since the Java computing power has greatly improved. The release of the
September 30, 2004 18:00pm,j2se1.5 is another milestone in the history of the Java language. In order to indicate the importance of this version, j2se1.5 renamed j2se5.0
June 2005, JavaOne Conference, Sun Company Open 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 Java Se,j2me to Java ME.
on November 13, 2006, Sun announced that Java's source code was exposed through the adoption of the GNU General public License Version 2.

Oracle announced on January 27, 2010 that it had completed its acquisition of Sun and held an all-day event at Redwood City headquarters in California on the same date.

Timeline for Java development