Wednesday, 18 March 2009

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Duke, the Java Duke, the Java mascot The Java platform and Java started as an internal project at Sun Microsystems in December 1990. Patrick Naughton, an engineer with Sun, I was disappointed with the state of C and C APIs and tools. While believed to migrate to NeXT, Naughton received the offer of work on a new technology, and thus began the Stealth. The Stealth Project was renamed the Green Project (or Project Green) where James Gosling and Mike Sheridan joined Naughton. With the help of other engineers, began work in a small office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. Attempting to develop a new technology for programming next generation smart devices, the Sun looked to exploit a new field. The team at first thought to use C, but was out for several reasons. When developing an embedded system with limited resources, C is not suitable for higher power also require that their complexity leads to errors of development. The absence of a garbage collector (garbage collector) requiring programmers to manually manage system memory, a dangerous and prone to failure. The team also was troubled by the lack of portable tools on security, distributed programming and concurrent programming. Finally called for a platform that is easily portable to any type of device. Bill Joy had devised a new language that combines the best of Mesa and C. In a letter entitled Further (farthest), Sun proposed that its engineers created an environment based on object-oriented C. Initially Gosling attempted to modify and extend C, what I call a C - but soon the idea to create a completely new language, which called Oak, in reference to the oak that was near his office. The team spent long hours and in the summer of 1992 had listed some parts of the platform, including...