"JAVA" is one of the most widely used language when it comes to software development. The reason behind it's success was portability and capability to operate similar on any hardware or operating system. Below are some interesting facts that most of people are unaware of.
1. Invented By Accident: James Gosling, the founder oof JAVA was working with his team at Sun Labs in 1992. He was building a set-top box and started by "cleaning up" C++ and wound up with new Language. Hence, JAVA came into existence.
2. Beginning Name Was "Oak": At First, Java was called "OAK", but later changed to Java by Sun's marketing department when they found that there was already a computer company registered as Oak.
3. Second Most Popular Language: Java is second most popular language after C. Although many argue that Java is all time favorite among developers, but according to popularity tracking website tiobe.com, Java is 2nd.
4. Java Pays To Learn: There are about 9 million developers in the world and it pays to be a Java developer and programmers are milking it.
5. JUnit Framework: JUnit Testing Framework is the top most technology used in Java. It's popularity can be measured from the fact that 70% developers used JUnit Testing Framework.
6. Go To Tool For Enterprises: Almost 95% enterprises use Java for programming and that is much more than combined C and others together.
7. Java and Android: Today, Java runs on billions of smartphones because Google Android operating system uses Java APIs.
8. Java Vs Google: Oracle is fighting a big courtroom battle with Google over the use of Java in Android operating system. If Oracle wins, it stands to make $8.8 billion.
1. Invented By Accident: James Gosling, the founder oof JAVA was working with his team at Sun Labs in 1992. He was building a set-top box and started by "cleaning up" C++ and wound up with new Language. Hence, JAVA came into existence.
2. Beginning Name Was "Oak": At First, Java was called "OAK", but later changed to Java by Sun's marketing department when they found that there was already a computer company registered as Oak.
3. Second Most Popular Language: Java is second most popular language after C. Although many argue that Java is all time favorite among developers, but according to popularity tracking website tiobe.com, Java is 2nd.
4. Java Pays To Learn: There are about 9 million developers in the world and it pays to be a Java developer and programmers are milking it.
5. JUnit Framework: JUnit Testing Framework is the top most technology used in Java. It's popularity can be measured from the fact that 70% developers used JUnit Testing Framework.
6. Go To Tool For Enterprises: Almost 95% enterprises use Java for programming and that is much more than combined C and others together.
7. Java and Android: Today, Java runs on billions of smartphones because Google Android operating system uses Java APIs.
8. Java Vs Google: Oracle is fighting a big courtroom battle with Google over the use of Java in Android operating system. If Oracle wins, it stands to make $8.8 billion.
