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Java was developed by James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. It was officially released in 1995 as Java 1.0. The language's design aimed for portability, allowing developers to write code that could run on any device with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).  Java quickly gained popularity due to its "write once, run anywhere" philosophy. In 2009, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems, becoming the steward of Java. Over the years, Java has evolved through various versions, introducing new features, improvements, and APIs. It is widely used in web development, enterprise applications, mobile development (Android), and more. WHERE DID THEY GOT THE NAME JAVA The name "Java" has different interpretations. One explanation is that it was inspired by the coffee-loving culture at Sun Microsystems. Another possibility is that it refers to the island of Java in Indonesia, known for its coffee production. The language was originally called "

THE VARIOUS JAVA VERSIONS 1. Java 1.0 (1996): The initial release. 2. Java 1.1 (1997): Added significant features like inner classes and JDBC. 3. Java 2 (1998):Introduced major enhancements, including Swing GUI toolkit and the Collections framework. 4. **Java 5 (2004): Known as J2SE 5.0, introduced generics, metadata annotations, and the enhanced for loop. 5. Java 6 (2006):Focused on performance improvements, script language support, and various API enhancements. 6. Java 7 (2011):Featured try-with-resources, diamond operator for generics, and the ForkJoinPool for parallel programming. 7. Java 8 (2014):A landmark release with lambda expressions, the Stream API, and the java.time package. 8. Java 9 (2017): Introduces the module system and improvements in the REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop). 9. Java 10 (2018): Mainly focused on local variable type inference and other minor enhancements. 10. Java 11 (2018):A long-term support (LTS) release with various improvements. 11. Java 12-17 (2019-2021):