Development Of Java

Today we will know about the development and need of java.

Before the emergence of java as a programming language, C++ was the dominant in the field of programming language.The chief goal of developers team was to create such a language that can take most of the features of C++ and overcome its limitation.

In 1972, C language was developed by Denis Ritchie. It became popular among programmers within a decade. But very soon it was realized that this language is very tedius due to its Structural syntax. The team of developers of programming language attempted to overcome this limitation. Later a new philosophy, named Object-Oriented Programming, was introduced.It brought Abstraction, Inheritance, Reusablity and Polymorphism features in programming. With OOP one can write certain code which may be reused or inherited or can be overwritten again and again. In 1979, Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++,a next step to the C language with oop fundamentals and features.

Very soon it was realized that C++ is not a secure programming language.Since it also uses Pointers. Pointers store the address of the location where variables are stored temporarily.So it cannot be used in electronic devices, as they need full security. So a language which would provide full security,was needed.In 1990 Sun Microsystems Inc.(US) received a project to develop  a software  for consumer electronic devices that can be controlled by remote. This project was called Stealth Project but later it was named as Green Project which was led by James Gosling Bill Joy and others.

In September of 1994, first java based web browser was developed. On May 23 1995,John Gage, the director of the science office of the Sun Microsystems along with Marc Andereesen, co-founder and Executive vice president at Netscape Inc. announced that Java technology was going to be incorporated with the browser Netscape Navigator. Very soon Microsoft also announced that they would support java in their web browser Internet Explorer. On 23 January 1996, Jdk1.0 version was released. Today more than 5 million developers use Java and more than 2 billion devices run Java. So we can say that "Java is Everywhere".