History of java

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Java is an object-oriented programming language. Java compiler compiled source code to bytecode and is then run by a Java Virtual Machine. Java is developed as the enhancement of C and C++ programming language.

Java programming language was started as a project called "Oak" by James Gosling and the team called as Green Team at Sun Microsystems in June 1991. James Gosling is the father of the Java programming language. 

Sun Microsystems( Now owns by Oracle Corporation) released Java progeamming language(version 1.0) in 1995. 

Java Programming Language Version History

  1. JDK Alpha and Beta (1995).
  2. JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan 1996).
  3. JDK 1.1 (19th Feb 1997)
  4. J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec 1998)
  5. J2SE 1.3 (8th May 2000)
  6. J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb 2002)
  7. J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep 2004)
  8. Java SE 6 (11th Dec 2006)
  9. Java SE 7 (28th July 2011)
  10. Java SE 8 (18th Mar 2014)
  11. Java SE 9 (21st Sep 2017)
  12. Java SE 10 (20th Mar 2018)
  13. Java SE 11 (Sep 2018)
  14. Java SE 12 (March 2019)
  15. Java SE 13 (Sep 2019)
  16. Java SE 14 (Mar 2020)
  17. Java SE 15 (Sep 2020)
  18. Java SE 16 (Mar 2021)
  19. Java SE 17 (Sep 2021)
  20. Java SE 18 (will be released by March 2022)
After Java 8 release, there is a pattern, seems every even version is release in March and an odd version released in September month.

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