Java is Simple , Object Oriented, Robust, Secured, Dynamic, Distributed,Automatically garbage collected, Multithreaded, Compiled and Interpreted,Platform Independent language used for internet programing.
History
Java was developed by Sun Microsystems (which is now the subsidiary of Oracle) in the year 1995.
James Gosling is known as the father of Java.
Before Java, its name was Oak. Since Oak was already a registered company, so James Gosling and his team changed the Oak name to Java.
JDK 1.0 released in (January 23, 1996). After the first release of Java, there have been many additional features added to the language. Now Java is being used in Windows applications, Web applications, enterprise applications, mobile applications, cards, etc.