When java was developed?

Java Programming Development

Java programming language was originally developed in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems Java platform. It was developed or founded by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle).

Java Programming Founded & Versions

Java Programming language first appeared on May 23, 1995, almost 24 years ago and it was designed by James Gosling and developer Sun Microsystems. It is multi-paradigm, generic, object-oriented, imperative, and reflective.

According to 2020, The latest versions are Java SE 13, released on September 17, 2019, and Java 11, a currently supported long-term support (LTS) version, released on September 25, 2018; Oracle released for the legacy Java 8 LTS the last free public update in January 2019 for commercial use, while it will otherwise still support Java 8 with public updates for personal use up to at least December 2020.

Java Programming Language

"Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible"

Versions of Java programming (1996-2020)

1. JDK 1.0 (January 23, 1996)
2. JDK 1.1 (February 19, 1996)
3. J2SE 1.2 (December 8, 1998)
4. J2SE 1.3 (May 8, 2000)
5. J2SE 1.4 (February 6, 2002)
6. J2SE 5.0 (September 30, 2004)
7. Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)
8. Java SE 7 (July 28, 2011)
9. Java SE 8 (March 18, 2014)
10. Java SE 9 (September 21, 2017)
11. Java SE 10 (March 20, 2018)
12. Java SE 11 (September 25, 2018)
13. Java SE 12 (March 19, 2019)
14. Java SE 13 (September 17, 2019)