11.5 JAVA: ALL OF THE ABOVE
In the early 1990s, Dr. James Gosling and his team at Sun Microsystems set out to create a programming language that would run on any computing platform. The mantra was to create a “write once, run anywhere” computer language. In 1995, Sun released the first version of the Java programming language. Because of its portability and open specifications, Java has become enormously popular. Java code is runnable on virtually all computer platforms, from the smallest handheld devices to the largest mainframes. The timing of Java’s arrival couldn’t have been better: It is a cross-platform language that was deployable at the inception of wide-scale Internet-based commerce, the perfect model of cross-platform computing. Although ...
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