What is Java? Why and how to learn Java Language?

In today's article, we are going to talk about Java Language.

Many applications of the mobile phone you are using now are made with the help of Java Language. Nowadays, Java is so popular that it is being used almost everywhere whether it is creating web applications or mobile applications.

But what is this Java language? What is its use? Can we also create mobile applications with the help of Java? etc. are some questions about which we are going to know today.

Without wasting any time, let us first know what is Java?

What is Java?

Java is a general-purpose, platform-independent programming language that includes the features of C and C++ along with some additional features. Its syntax is somewhat similar to C and C++. 

Java is a high-level, object-oriented, and very secure programming language that was created by Sun Microsystems. In today's time, Java is used in social media applications, audio and video applications, etc. 

Java is a class-based, platform-independent programming language in which we can easily run programs written on any platform. Here platform means the operating system that works to run programs and applications in our computer. 

Java has a slogan “JAVA is Everywhere” which is also true, nowadays Java is being used almost everywhere whether it is making application software or any other software. 

Once we compile the code written in Java language, we can easily run that byte code on any platform.  

To run the byte code obtained from the compilation of Java code, JVM software comes which we install in the computer in which we have to run the Java program. 

Uses of Java

Java is used to create the following applications :

• Java language is used to create Android Apps.
• Java language helps us in creating Enterprise Software.
• Java is used in creating scientific computing applications. 
• Java is used in data analytics. 
• Java is also used in server-side technologies like Apache, JBoss, GlassFish, etc.

History of Java

The history of the creation of Java language is quite interesting. Java language was created in 1991 by James Gosling and his team, also known as the Green Team. This team included James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton. 

All of them used to work in Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystem was a software development company that used to create software for its clients but they had to do different coding to run the same software on different machines, seeing this they thought of creating Java language. Which is platform-independent and can be easily run on any platform. 

Java language was created by James Gosling in 1995, hence James Gosling is called the Father of Java Language or the inventor of Java language.

Initially, it was thought to name it Oak instead of JAVA, but at that time there was already a company registered with this name, so instead of Oak, it was named JAVA. 

Sun Microsystem released its first version in 1996. Currently, the latest standard edition of Java is Java SE 16. 

Java Versions

Let us briefly see all the versions of Java in the form of a table and know when these versions were released :

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