History of java

Assignment 

Module: Computer Programming

Year : 1

Lecturer: Mr Kanu

Name of Student: Abdulraman Vandi

Department: Information Technology

 BRIEF HISTORY OF JAVE 

James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991.Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time. The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office. Later the project went by the name Green and was finally renamed Java, from Java coffee, a type of coffee from Indonesia. Gosling designed Java with a C/C++-style syntax that system and application programmers would find familiar.

It was released in May 1995 as a core component of Sun's Java platform. The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were released by Sun under proprietary licenses. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun had relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GPL-2.0-only license. Oracle, which bought Sun in 2010, offers its own HotSpot Java virtual machine. However, the official reference implementation is the OpenJDK JVM, which is open-source software used by most developers and is the default JVM for almost all Linux distributions.

SOME OF THE COMMPE TOOLS PROVIDED BY AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE)

Below are some of the tools provided by an IDE that makes coding fast and easy:

1. Code Editor 

2. Compiler

3. Debugger

4. Auto Correction

5. Error Detection 

BENIFITS OF USING AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPEMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE)

1. Fast coding

2. Early error detection

3. Automatic Suggestions

4. Easy Debugging

5. Project management

TYPES OF INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT  ENVIRONMENT (IDE)

1. Intellij idea

2. Eclipse

3. Bluej

4. Netbeans