Introduction to Java

Brief history of Java

• Background : Electronic Consumer Device.
• Sun commissioned 'Project Green'.
• Developed Language 'Oak-Later renamed to JAVA '.
• Inspired by a coffee bean?
• or an acronym for the names of the team members: James Gosling, Arthur Van Hoff, and Andy Bechtolsheim?
• Was dismissed as just another Object Oriented Programming language.
• Become popular with the rising popularity of 'www'.

Key Features of Java

• Object Oriented Language.
• Simple.
• Robust.
• Distributed.
• Secure.
• Architectural Neutral.
• Portable.
• Interpreted.
• Multi-Threaded.