The versions that has been released.?

The versions that has been released.?

Version	Released on	No. of Classe	No. of Packages
JDK Alpha and Beta	(1995)
JDK 1.0	(23rd Jan, 1996)	212	08
JDK 1.1	(19th Feb, 1997)	503	23
J2SE 1.2	(8th Dec, 1998)	1520	59
J2SE 1.3	(8th May, 2000)
J2SE 1.4	(6th Feb, 2002)
J2SE 5.0	(30th Sep, 2004)	3562	166
Java SE 6	(11th Dec, 2006)	3792	203
Java SE 7	(28th July, 2011)	4024	209
Java SE 8	(18th March, 2014)

On January 27, 2010 sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 Billion.Hense fromt 1.7 its Oracle Product.

History of Java?

History of Java?

Sun was wanted to see what will be next in computing? So they assembeled one team named as Green team Motivaion: Inttial they want to make network of heterogeneous consumer deveces.Theat deveces will be small reliable distributed realtime embedded system.So they decided to make a prototype. Goals: Consume less memory,platform independent,multi threading,secure. INITIATLITY THEY THINK TO USE C++ BUT IT HAS SOME LIMITATION AS WE ALL KNOWS So new language invented ie. Oak(1991) by James Arthur Goslin in 1995 it renamed as Java. 5 sept. 1992 the green team came with the device ie. *7 (StarSeven) handheld touch screen device. Then they targeted Cable TV it doesnt work Then they come toward network, internet. Before java comes into existance internate moves only satic. so sun world inavonce browser HotJava HTML+program(applet)=dynamic its java installed browser and applet are platform independent. Netscape navigator ship with Java. Java was conceived by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank, and Mike Sheridan. First Version relesed in 1996