1. The History of Java By: Drew Fleming

2. Before I Start Teaching You Guys Important things to keep in mind Java is not the next step in C++ progression Java was developed by Sun for Sun Sun is not Bell Labs Java’s syntax only looks like C++ because that was the designers preference Java was designed from the ground up Any questions?

3. In the beginning We begin in 1990 Hardly an internet as we know it PC’s were getting more popular Sun felt like it missed the personal pc bus Patrick Naughton was about to quit but before he did he wrote down everything he hated about Sun and emailed it to the CEO CEO loved it and forwarded it to the whole company Everyone loved Naugton’s idea

4. In the Beginning Everyone loved to bitch so much a bunch of high level engineers stayed up until 4:30AM talking about how to turn it around. This resulted in John Gage and others formed a project called Green Offsite from Sun Top secret $1,000,000

5. The Green Project WTF do we do now? They had no real plan in mind to begin with They knew Microsoft owned the PC market Thus their new goal was to design software and an environment that could run anywhere, even in things people didn’t think of as computers Noticed that computers were everywhere  Toasters  VCR’s  Doors Wanted to make them work together

6. The Juices are Now Flowing Official Goal “To develop and license an operating environment for consumer devices that enables services and information to be persuasively presented via the emerging digital infrastructure.”

7. What Language Shall We Use C++ Most popular Designed for Speed However it was easy to break Consumers would flip if their TV remote crashed Reliability>Speed Gosling needed something new

8. Oak Gosling had been working on a C++ replacement already named after a tree outside his office window. “From the initial ‘Oh, f***’ to getting to a reasonable state only too a few months.” Naughton was working on graphics Aug. 1991- The graphics were running correctly on Oak

9. *7 Used “hammer technology” to make a ‘remote control’ out of a sharp minitelevision, touch screen, gameboy speakers, and a Sun Sparc workstation. Hacked like mad to get Oak to work on it, and finally did. Presented *7 to the CEO. He loved that so much.

10. FirstPerson Subsidiary of Sun to sell *7 to companies No one wanted to buy it Why make a device that makes my device easier to use? IT MAKES NO SENSE they said. However, interactive TV’s were getting attention FirstPerson lost the bid at Time Warner, 3D0 FirstPerson was screwed.

11. Enter the Internet Sun supplied 50% of the host computers that ran the internet. How did they miss that market?? A new plan for Oak was created by Bill Joy. Internet play- Giving away software to build a market share Oak renamed to Java after coffee Naughton wrote an interpreter for a web browser called HotJava

12. Why Java is Good Reliable No memory access, no explicit garbage collection helped to make software more reliable that C++. Added multithreading and automatic garbage collection. Secure Designed to be secure because it was designed to allow secure execution across a network. Lots of unsafe thing that C++ used had to be tossed.

13. Byte Code and Other Goodies Java was good for the web The precompiled byte code can fly around the web, be device independent and run on any machine that has the interpreter complied for their computer. Most C++ errors were to do memory allocation To eliminate this, Java does not have much of this.

14. Thanks Bank, David. "The Java Saga." 1993. 20 Apr. 2006. Byous, Jon. "Java Technology: the Early Years." 3 Apr. 2006. 20 Apr. 2006. Harold, Elliotte R. "What is Java." Comp.Lang.Java FAQ. 1995. 20 Apr. 2006. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article “Java Programming Language”