1. CPSC 2150

2. Developed by a team lead by James Gosling from Sun Microsystems – 1995 WORA (write once, run anywhere) – it is cross platform – no recompiling

3. JDK (Java Development Kit) 1995 JDK 1.0 (January 1996) JDK 1.1 (February 1997) J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.2, J2EE(Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), J2ME(Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) (December 1998) J2SE 1.3 (May 2000) J2SE 1.4 (February 2002) J2SE 5.0 (September 2004)

4. Java SE 6 (December 2006) provided approximately 95 updates between 2007 -2015 Java SE 7 (July 2011) provided approximately 80 updates between 2011 – 2015 Java SE 8 (March 2014) approximately 45 updates between 2014 – 2015 Expected release of java SE 9 (September 2016) Expected release of java SE 10 (2018)

5. A high level, OO programming language Suitable for various applications GUI: graphical user interface Multimedia Network and distributed applications Databases Heavy computational applications Platform Independent Secure

6. Popular with programmers – because Supports strong type checking Packages Exception handling Manages memory automatically