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5 Interesting Facts about Java

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