Java (History)

HISTORY OF JAVA

Java was developed by "James Ghosling" at Sun Micro-systems corporation in 1991 and its first version was developed with 18 months time duration.

Java initial name was "Oak" and it was renamed to Java in 1995.



JAVA VERSION
Java initially launched with 1.0 version but very soon it launched Java 1.1 version. 

Java 1.1 version launched with two new features (Redefined Event Handling and New Library Elements) 

Java 1.2 version launched with Swing and Collection framework features.   

Java 1.3 (no major change in this version)

Java 1.4: This version was launched with some more important features (Chained exceptions, Channel based I/O system and new keyword "assert")

Java 1.5 introduced with more number of new features.
    
Java 1.5 features are mentioned below.

* Genetics 

* Annotation

* Enumeration

* For-each loop

* Static Import

* Formatted I/O

* Auto-boxing and Auto-unboxing


Java SE 7: This version also introduced with following new features.

* Multi Catch Exception

* Binary Integer Literals

* try-with-resource statement


Java SE 8: This Java version was released on 18 March 2014 with following new features.

* Lambda Expressions

* Parallel Array Sorting

* Nashorn JavaScript Engine

* Enhanced Security Features

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