Java and the Java Virtual Machine
Java y máquina virtual
- Date
- 1995 · confidence high
- Place
- Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, California, United States
- Credited to
- James Gosling and Sun Microsystems' Green Team
- People
- 👤 James Gosling1955–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Object-oriented language that compiles to bytecode runnable on any virtual machine, with automatic memory management. It became the language of enterprise software and of Android.
What it led to
- Portable enterprise applications and web servers
- Android, written in Java, and the Oracle-Google lawsuit
- Virtual machines and managed languages such as C#
Built on
Made possible
- JavaScript1995
- Android operating system2008
- web business applications
- Minecraft