• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Happy birthday Java - Celebrating 12 years of Java

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 117
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
On 23 May 1995, Java was officially accepted as real and was to be incorporated into Netscape Navigator. At that time, the entire Java technology team, not yet a division, numbered less than 30 people.

How it started
In early 1990s a small group at Sun Microsystems was given the opportunity to think and come up with �the next big thing in technology�. And when they created a hardware independent software platform, no one imagined it would change the world.

A technology that, but for a few twists of fate, might never have happened. What first started of as demo for set-top boxes (StarSeven) for cable TVs that never took off; was then demonstrated at a Hollywood gathering. The HotJava browser that was demonstrated ran animations of line sorting algorithms and 3D molecule applets. Seeing no commercial deals closing, the team released the code for free on the Internet. Developers by thousands (more than 10K downloads a day) started using the programming language, now called Java, for network applications.

Present
Java offers wora (write-once-run-anywhere) portability, application security model, ubiquitous distribution and enterprise connectivity.

A lot of synergistic things have happened in Internet and enterprise technology in the last few years, and these are just the beginning: JDK, the sandbox, applets, thousands of Java technology-oriented startups, thousands of books on Java technology, JavaBeans architecture, Java Studio, Netscape Communicator, thousands of Internet service providers, millions of Internet users, 56K and cable modems, electronic commerce, servlets, Java Foundation Classes, Enterprise JavaBeans components, Java on Mobiles, RTSJ on NASA�s Mars mission, and commitments from major players such as IBM, among others.

At one time Sun was the sole driving force behind Java, but opening of the Java Community Process has allowed other companies to contribute and collaboratively decide on ever widening areas such as web services, embedded, mobile, publishing, security and the language itself.

Glimpse into the future
Rocky 7, of the Mars Mission, uses Real Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). This is true end-to-end use of Java, from the ground systems controlling the devices to the little Rocky 7 strolling Mars..
GPS adapters in phone using Web services to access real-time application over phone networks, eliminating need for updates to maps or points of interests (places and routes).

Java implementation coverage includes: Grid Computing (Sun Grid), handwriting recognition (on HMM), virtualization, robotics (Robotic Dune Buggy - Tommy), patient monitoring (Bi-Fi), future combat systems (using JXTA), aiding trauma centers (using JOONE neural frameworks). Offering on J2EE include: SEAM, SOA, Derby, Persistence APIs, BPEL integration & WEB 2.0. Offerings on Mobile include: secure payment wallets, Location API, CDC, DReaM, Blu-ray & MVM.

Other latest contributions include:
Java�s Auto-Id tags whose usage varies from supply chain, with an industrial automation robot to the refrigerator detecting age of milk.
JavaFX comprising of Script & Mobile, enables content providers to author rich, visually compelling dynamic applications.

Many happy returns of the day, Java.
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 536
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
and happy birthday to Buddha, 24 May 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_Birthday
 
Wanderer
Posts: 18671
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Also, today would be the 300th birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, father of the modern system of Linnaean taxonomy.
 
Rancher
Posts: 43081
77
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We talk about Java all the time; Linnaeus is a more interesting subject in this forum. There's apparently an inflation in the number of species happening which has some people worried that the value of the species classification is about to become devalued.
[ May 24, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]
 
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic