This is a timeline of events leading to the establishment of Java language.
Jan 1991 -> "Green Project" born at Sun Microsystems for programming for consumer devices. Created by Bill Joy, James Gosling, Patrick Naughton
Feb 1991 -> "Oak language" created with James as architect. Initially it was just an extension of C++ by filling in gaps. Later it was recreated as a new language.
Apr 1991 -> "Star Seven" team formed for further development. SPARC hardware prototyped.
Mar 1992 -> Oak was renamed as Java.
Nov 1992 -> New company named "First Person" created for Java.
Feb 1993 -> Commercial rollouts of Java were tried.
Sep 1993 -> Java Application development goes full steam. Arthur Van Hoff joins the team.
July 1994 -> Java embedding in web browsers by Patrick Naughton
Sep 1994 -> First Java application created named "HotJava" which was a web browser. The credit of this first big success to Patrick Naughton and Jonatha Payne.
Oct 1994 -> Java compiler was bootstrapped. Original compiler written by Gosling was in C. It was rewritten in Java by Van Hoff.
Java Versions with Codenames:
May 1995 -> Formal launch of Java programming language. Netscape, Oracle and Microsoft declare support to it. This was the beta release.
Jan 1996 -> Java 1.0
Feb 1997 -> Java 1.1
Dec 1998 -> Java 1.2 [Playground]
May 2000 -> Java 1.3 [Kestrel]
Feb 2002 -> Java 1.4 [Merlin]
Sep 2004 -> Java 5 [Tiger]
Dec 2006 -> Java 6 [Mustang]
-------Oracle acquisition-------
Jul 2011 -> Java 7 [Dolphin]
Mar 2014 -> Java 8 [Spider]
Sep 2017 -> Java 9
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