5 Interesting Facts about Java
- Java was developed by James Gosling in 1995 at Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle).
- It was initially called Oak. Later it was renamed to Green and was finally renamed to Java inspired by Java coffee.
- Java has close to 9 million developers worldwide.
- About 3 billion mobile phones run Java, as well as 125 million TV sets and every Blu-Ray player.
- According to indeed.com, the average salary of a Java developer is just over $100,000 per year in the US.
- James and his team were working on setup box by modifying C++ and ended up with new programming language JAVA.
- It only supports OPPS concept.