History of java Initially developed by James Gosling at sun sun Microsystems (which is now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995. In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995 . Java team members initiated this project to develop a language for digital devices such as set-top boxes, televisions, etc. However, it was suited for internet programming. Later, Java technology was incorporated by Netscape. The principles for creating Java programming were "Simple, Robust, Portable, Platform-independent, Secured, High Performance, Multithreaded, Architecture Neutral, Object-Oriented, Interpreted, and Dynamic". JAVA was developed by James Gosling , who is known as the father of Java, in 1995. WHY NAME JAVA - According to James Gosling, "Java was one of the top choices along with Silk ". Since Java was so unique, most of the team members preferred Jav...