Java Features 2.3
tures and called it as “oak”. It was also known for some time as “Green” and ultimately settled
as “Java”. The idea by Gosling was to build a virtual machine and a language that would work
truly as a machine-independent language with features of already popular C++ language nota-
tion. The design goals envisaged by inventors of Java are:
• It should be simple, object oriented, and familiar.
• It should be robust and secure.
• It should be architecture neutral and portable.
• It should execute with high performance.
• It should be interpreted, threaded, and dynamic.
Sun Micro first released
Java 1.0 in 1995. All major web browsers incorporated and sup-
ported Java 1.0. With rich platform-independent and easy to program features, ...