Developed by Sun Microsystems(James

Gosling)

A General purpose OOP

Based on C/C++

Write Once Run Anywhere(WORA)

Designed for easy Web/Internet application

In 1995, JAVA was first publicly released.

In 1996, Java Development Kit(JDK) 1.0 was

released.

In 2002, JDK 1.4 was released, most used

version of java.

Two reasons:

-Trouble with C/C++ language is that they

are not portable and are not platform

independent.

-Emergence World wide web , which

demanded portable programs.

Portability and Security necessitated the

invention of Java.