Introduction To Java.

1.1. History

                        Java is a programming language created by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems in 1991. The first publicly available version of Java (Java 1.0) was released in 1995.

Over time new enhanced versions of Java have been released. The current version of Java is Java 1.7 which is also known as Java 7.

                                                 From the Java programming language the Java platform evolved. The Java platform allows software developers to write program code in other languages than the Java programming language and still runs on the Java virtual machine. The Java platform is usually associated with the Java virtual machineand the Java core libraries.