Java is object oriented programming Language, developed by James Gosling along with his associates at Sun Micro system (a software company), USA. Initially it was named OAK (a tree outside Gosling's Office). The name OAK remained only for some hours until the development team realised that another language is also available with this name. Finally, on the coffee table they decided a professional name for the language as Java. It was primarily was developed to help user in web designing but later on it emerged as a full-fledged programming language in 1991.
