The Language of Java

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The Language of Java
What is Java? Java, in it’s simplest definition, is a dynamic computer application that can run a program to accomplish a task. Java runs in all sorts of things in the average person’s life; things such as car stereo systems, televisions, cell phone applications, websites, and more. But, where did it come from, and how does it work, and how has it impacted our lives today?
Java was first created by Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, and James Gosling in 1994. However, they started writing the code for it four years earlier in 1990. They originally started making it to try and make a new and more practical way of computing. Originally, Java was called “Oak”, and it was being made for the Green Project in Sun Microsystems (about.com). Using Oak, they wrote a browser called WebRunner, and later renamed it HotJava. This browser was the first browser that was dynamic, capable of having moving objects on the page, and having executable content within the page (oracle.com). With the internet era beginning to take hold, having over sixteen million internet users, people begin to notice Java through the web by next year.
The following year, Java becomes so big that a conference called JavaOne takes place. This conference had over six thousand people come to learn this new, object-oriented language that was changing the web and computing in general. There were also over 160 companies and small businesses that attended, all showing off their Java-related products. Just one year later, over 400,000 developers are working in Java, making it the second largest computer language in the world (oracle.com). Over 10,000 developers attended the JavaOne conference that year.
In 1999, the Java 2 Platform is released, allowing d...

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