Web Programming with Java - Introduction to Java

An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems Also a platform to support Java applications (technology) A little bit history 1991: A team led by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems developed Oak, for use in embedded consumer electronic appliances 1995: renamed Java -redesigned for developing Internet applications (Java 1.0 1.1). 1998: Sun announced the Java 2 platform (1.2,1.3,1.4) 2005 -Now: Java 5 (Java 1.5 -newest version 1.7)