What is Java

 

Java is a programming language and a platform.Java is a high level, robust, object-oriented and secure programming language. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995. Before that the research of Java started in 1990, James Gosling is known as the father of Java. Before Java, its name was Oak. Oak was name of big tree so this name was not suitable for technical Language name ,They this about java name but that name was already register by a coffee company name so they told the owner of java company name that they want to use that name so owner of java company was said you have to put my coffee logo to your product   so James Gosling and his team changed the Oak name to Java.

Platform: Any hardware or software environment in which a program runs, is known as a platform. Since Java has a runtime environment JVM and  (JRE) and API, it is called platform.

Java Example :

A Simple Example  of  Hello Java Program

1. class Hello{  
2.     public static void main(String args[]){  
3.      System.out.println("Hello Java");  
4.     }  
5. }