Introduction to Java Programming Langauge and its Evolution | HackThatCORE

Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented,and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA),meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation.
Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. As of 2016, Java is one of the most popular programming languages in use,particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.
Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them.

• 2013
• 9 Million Developers
• 1 Billion Downloads per year
• 3 Billion Devices run Java
• 97% of enterprises desktops run Java
• 100% of Blue Ray Disc player ships with Java
• 2011

Java 7 is officially released

• 2007
• 6 Million Java Developers,
• 8,750,000 Java SDKs and
• 6,300,000 Java SE JDKs had been downloaded
• 2006
• Java is open sourced now
• After Java was open sourced, the number shot up to 1 million per year.
• 2005
• Java Now drives $100 Billion of Business annually.
• 4.5 Million Developers, 25 Million Java Enabled Devices and 1 Billion enabled smart cards.
• 2004
• Java is inside 1.5 Billion devices
• 4 Million Java Developers and 550 Java User Groups
• Java Technology is found on 650 million desktops and 60% of worlds PC desktop ships most current version of Java
• 2001

Down loads of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
SDK tops 1 million

• 1999

Sun announces - Java Platform Standard Edition (J2SE), Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java Platform Micro Edition (J2ME)

• 1998

Java 2

• JDK II tops 2 million downloads
• Java 2 Released as J2SE 1.2
• 1997

400,000 developers were working in Java, it become #2 programming language in the world

• 1996

Sun Released Java 1.0 in 1996 with the Promise of Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA) providing no-cost run-times on popular platforms. Major Browsers soon incorporated the ability to run java applets and java quickly become popular
More than 220,000 downloads of JDKII in just 3 weeks

• 1993

Renamed to Java and was used in HotJava Browser for the first time

• 1991
• Earlier Java was known as Oak Language
• First used for embedded systems