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  • May 23, 1995, is its Birthday

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    Java, like all other innovations, has a birthday! Java 1.0 was officially released on May 23, 1995. Although there have been many upgrades and advancements to the language since then, this day is still a significant turning point in the development of Java. 

  • WORA is its Principle

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    The fact that Java is platform-neutral is one of its greatest advantages. The “Write Once, Run Anywhere” (WORA) idea is to blame for this. Writing Java code results in its compilation into bytecode, which is compatible with any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and can operate on any host operating system. Because of this, Java has…

  • Oak is its Original Name

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    Coffee is the unexpected source of Java’s name! Java was named while James Gosling was enjoying a cup of coffee. Gosling’s love of coffee served as inspiration for the creation of the beverage. The language was originally called “Oak,” but Java was later added to it to reflect the rich culture around coffee in Indonesia,…

  • Java Versions History

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    Over the period of nearly 30 years, Java has seen many minor and major versions. Following is a brief explaination of versions of java till date. Sr.No. Version Date Description 1 JDK Beta 1995 Initial Draft version 2 JDK 1.0 23 Jan 1996 A stable variant JDK 1.0.2 was termed as JDK 1 3 JDK…

  • Finally Java

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    Team put multiple names like DNA, Silk, Ruby and Java. Java was finalized by the team. James Gosling tabled Java title based on type of espresso coffee bean. Java is an island in Indonesia where new coffee was discovered termed as Java coffee. As per James Gosling, Java was among the top choice along with…

  • Oak

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    James Gosling renamed language to Oak. There was an Oak tree in front of his office. James Gosling used this name as Oak represents solidarity and Oak tree is the national tree of multiple countries like USA, France, Romania etc. But Oak technologies already had Oak as a trademark and James team had to brainstrom…

  • Java Name History

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    GreenTalk James Gosling was leading a team named as ‘Green’ team. Target of this team was to create a new project which can. Initially C++ was the original choice to develop the project. James Gosling wanted to enhance C++ to achieve the target but due to high memory usage, that idea was rejected and team started with…

  • History of Java

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    Java programming language was originally developed by Sun Microsystems which was initiated by James Gosling and released in 1995 as core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform (Java 1.0 [J2SE]). History of even naming of the Java is very interesting. It went under many names.

  • Garbage collection

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    Java provides automatic garbage collection that cannot be controlled by the programmer. It doesn’t provide the methods like delete() and free() to free the memory. However, due to the various disadvantages, Java is one of the most used programming languages due to its advantages, making it platform-independent, secure and a robust programming language.

  • Less machine interactive

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    Java lacks when it comes to interacting directly with machines, making it less viable for the software that needs to run quickly and run directly with the machine, as explicit pointers are also missing in Java.