"Oak" was just a working project name used, supposedly named after an oak tree outside James Gosling's office window. When it was officially released, they didn't want to keep the current project name and chose to switch it to "Java".
They had to change the name, for trademark reasons: they found out that there was already some language called "Oak".
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The Java Programming Language was originally named Oak because of an oak tree that stood outside one of the founders' office. It was then renamed to Green, and then renamed to Java because supposedly the creators of the Java Language consumed large amounts of Java coffee.
java was discovered by James gosling and Co. in 1991 at sun micro systems..they renamed oak to java..initially java used in programming for set top boxes (for movie on demand..)
First when it was developed , it was named as Oak , then after sometime its name changed to Green , finally it is renamed as "Java" from Java Coffee . It is also said that a lot of this coffee was consumed by java creators at that time .
James Gosling initiated the Java language project in June 1991 for use in one of his many set-top box projects.[5] The language, initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office, also went by the name Green and ended up later renamed as Java, from a list of random words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
The first name of the Java Programming was Oak. It then went by the game Green and finally Java from Java coffee.
Java programing language was designed by James Gosling and it was initially called as "Oak" but later it was renamed to "Java" in the year 1995.
The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office. Later the project went by the name Green and was finally renamed Java, from Java coffee, the coffee from Indonesia.
The Java Programming Language was originally named Oak because of an oak tree that stood outside one of the founders' office. It was then renamed to Green, and then renamed to Java because supposedly the creators of the Java Language consumed large amounts of Java coffee.
java was discovered by James gosling and Co. in 1991 at sun micro systems..they renamed oak to java..initially java used in programming for set top boxes (for movie on demand..)
First when it was developed , it was named as Oak , then after sometime its name changed to Green , finally it is renamed as "Java" from Java Coffee . It is also said that a lot of this coffee was consumed by java creators at that time .
Sun Microsystem in 1991 has developed the language 'oak' and it was renamed as java in 1995.it is because of two reasons: 1.the name oak-"which represents high growth same like the Oak tree" is already has copyrights by that time by another company 2.it has undergone many changes and made all its defects disappear
James Gosling initiated the Java language project in June 1991 for use in one of his many set-top box projects.[5] The language, initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office, also went by the name Green and ended up later renamed as Java, from a list of random words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
the java language get it first name as OAK because of the oak tree in front of gosling's window in his office
The programming language known as Java was named "Oak" originally.
Oak is now referred to as Java
Yes you should go with java, it is used much more than .net currently. Java gets its name from Sun Java how owns java. Before java was released to the public it was called oak because of an oak tree outside of the office of the person who created it. Some people think it got its current name because oak is not a good name for a language, and that it took lots of coffee (java) to make java.
The original plan was to call the Java language "Oak", but it turned out there already was a programming language of that name, so they changed the name. Java is of course unrelated to this other "Oak" language, the one that had already reserved the name.