

Java is currently owned by the Oracle corporation. Starting in 1991, a group of engineers called the “Green Team” worked tirelessly to create Java. Java was invented by James Gosling and developed by Sun Microsystems. Eclipse IDE is a popular free IDE to write Java applications with. To be able to code Java-based applications, a Java Development Kit (JDK) software bundle is required (see later). Because Java is also a computing platform, there are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have an implementation of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. It is considered to be fast and secure, but it is not an easy-to-learn programming language. Several new versions have been launched since its release. Java took roughly four years to develop and is still in active development. You might have heard, or seen, that Java is everywhere! Today, it is still used on billions of devices ranging from laptops, game consoles, cell phones, and datacenters to scientific supercomputers. Unlike JavaScript, which is mainly a client-side scripting language, Java is used to write fast, but robust and secure server-side applications and websites. Java is a programming language and computing platform (an environment in which its code is executed) first released in 1995.
