Java Evolution
Java was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1991 under the name Oak as a language for programming consumer electronics. It was later renamed to Java and became best known as a language for developing applications and applets to run on web browsers over the Internet. Key features of Java include being platform-independent, object-oriented, robust, secure, and having a rich class library. Java applications are compiled to bytecode that runs on a Java Virtual Machine, allowing them to run on any platform that supports Java.