The history of the Java programming language is usually associated with origin predates of the web. James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Mike Sheridan, and Ed Frank initiated the Java language project in June 1991. The idea was to develop a platform-independent language and create embedded software for consumer electronic devices. It took 18 months to develop and had an initial name as Oak which was renamed to Java in 1995 due to copyright issues.
Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems(which has since merged into Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995. JDK 1.0 released in(January 23, 1996). Java SE 10 is a current stable release of Java, and many other previous Java versions are also available.
Java Version Release History
| Version | Released on |
|---|---|
| JDK1.0 | 23 Jan 1996 |
| JDK1.1 | 19 Feb 1997 |
| J2SE 1.2 | 8 Dec 1998 |
| J2SE 1.3 | 8 May 2000 |
| J2SE 1.4 | 6 Feb 2002 |
| J2SE 5.0 | 30 Sept 2004 |
| Java SE 6 | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Java SE 7.0 | 28 July 2011 |
| Java SE 8.0 | 18 March 2014 |
| Java SE 9.0 | Sept 2017 |
| Java SE 10 (18.3) | 2018 |
