Java ( programming language ) - wikipedia Java ( programming language ) `` Java language '' redirects here. For the natural language from the Indonesian island of Java, see Javanese language. This article is about a programming language. For the software package downloaded from java.com, see Java SE. Not to be confused with JavaScript. Java Paradigm Multi-paradigm : object - oriented ( class - based ), structured, imperative, generic, reflective, concurrent Designed by James Gosling Developer Sun Microsystems ( now owned by Oracle Corporation ) First appeared May 23, 1995 ; 23 years ago ( 1995 - 05 - 23 ) Typing discipline Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest License GNU General Public License, Java Community Process Filename extensions. java,. class,. jar Website oracle.com/java/ Major implementations Compilers : OpenJDK ( javac, sjavac ), GNU Compiler for Java ( GCJ ), Eclipse Compiler for Java ( ECJ ) Virtual machines : OpenJDK JRE, Oracle JRockit, Azul Zing, IBM J9, Excelsior JET, Gluon VM, Microsoft JVM, Apache Harmony JIT compilers : HotSpot, GraalVM, Azul Falcon ( LLVM ) Dialects Generic Java, Pizza Influenced by Ada 83, C++, C#, Eiffel, Generic Java, Mesa, Modula - 3, Oberon, Objective - C, UCSD Pascal, Object Pascal Influenced Ada 2005, BeanShell, C#, Chapel, Clojure, ECMAScript, Fantom, Gambas, Groovy, Hack, Haxe, J#, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Scala, Seed7, Vala Java Programming at Wikibooks Java is a general - purpose computer - programming language that is concurrent, class - based, object - oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers `` write once, run anywhere '' ( WORA ), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine ( JVM ) regardless of computer architecture. As of 2016, Java is one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client - server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers. Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems ( which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation ) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems ' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low - level facilities than either of them. The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses. As of May 2007, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, Sun relicensed most of its Java technologies under the GNU General Public License. Others have also developed alternative implementations of these Sun technologies, such as the GNU Compiler for Java ( bytecode compiler ), GNU Classpath ( standard libraries ), and IcedTea - Web ( browser plugin for applets ). The latest version is Java 11, released on September 25, 2018, which follows Java 10 after only six months in line with the new release schedule. Java 8 is still supported but there will be no more security updates for Java 9. Versions earlier than Java 8 are supported by companies on a commercial basis ; e.g. by Oracle back to Java 6 as of October 2017 ( while they still `` highly recommend that you uninstall '' pre-Java 8 from at least Windows computers ). Contents 1 History 1.1 Principles 1.2 Versions 2 Editions 3 Execution System 3.1 Java JVM and Bytecode 3.1. 1 Performance 3.2 Non-JVM 3.3 Automatic memory management 4 Syntax 4.1 `` Hello world '' example 4.2 Example with methods 5 Special classes 5.1 Applet 5.2 Servlet 5.3 JavaServer Pages 5.4 Swing application 5.5 Generics 6 Criticism 7 Class libraries 8 Documentation 9 Implementations 10 Use outside the Java platform 10.1 Android 10.1. 1 Controversy 11 See also 11.1 Comparison of Java with other languages 12 Notes 13 References 14 External links History See also : Java ( software platform ) § History Duke, the Java mascot James Gosling, the creator of Java, in 2008 The TIOBE programming language popularity index graph from 2002 to 2018. Over the course of a decade, Java ( blue ) and C ( black ) competed for the top position. James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time. 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. Gosling designed Java with a C / C++ - style syntax that system and application programmers would find familiar. Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1996. It promised `` Write Once, Run Anywhere '' ( WORA ), providing no - cost run - times on popular platforms. Fairly secure and featuring configurable security, it allowed network - and file - access restrictions. Major web browsers soon incorporated the ability to run Java applets within web pages, and Java quickly became popular. The Java 1.0 compiler was re-written in Java by Arthur van Hoff to comply strictly with the Java 1.0 language specification. With the advent of Java 2 ( released initially as J2SE 1.2 in December 1998 -- 1999 ), new versions had multiple configurations built for different types of platforms. J2EE included technologies and APIs for enterprise applications typically run in server environments, while J2ME featured APIs optimized for mobile applications. The desktop version was renamed J2SE. In 2006, for marketing purposes, Sun renamed new J2 versions as Java EE, Java ME, and Java SE, respectively. In 1997, Sun Microsystems approached the ISO / IEC JTC 1 standards body and later the Ecma International to formalize Java, but it soon withdrew from the process. Java remains a de facto standard, controlled through the Java Community Process. At one time, Sun made most of its Java implementations available without charge, despite their proprietary software status. Sun generated revenue from Java through the selling of licenses for specialized products such as the Java Enterprise System. On November 13, 2006, Sun released much of its Java virtual machine ( JVM ) as free and open - source software, ( FOSS ), under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ). On May 8, 2007, Sun finished the process, making all of its JVM 's core code available under free software / open - source distribution terms, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did not hold the copyright. Sun 's vice-president Rich Green said that Sun 's ideal role with regard to Java was as an `` evangelist ''. Following Oracle Corporation 's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2009 -- 10, Oracle has described itself as the `` steward of Java technology with a relentless commitment to fostering a community of participation and transparency ''. This did not prevent Oracle from filing a lawsuit against Google shortly after that for using Java inside the Android SDK ( see Google section below ). Java software runs on everything from laptops to data centers, game consoles to scientific supercomputers. On April 2, 2010, James Gosling resigned from Oracle. In January 2016, Oracle announced that Java runtime environments based on JDK 9 will discontinue the browser plugin. Principles There were five primary goals in the creation of the Java language : It must be `` simple, object - oriented, and familiar ''. It must be `` robust and secure ''. It must be `` architecture - neutral and portable ''. It must execute with `` high performance ''. It must be `` interpreted, threaded, and dynamic ''. Versions Main article : Java version history As of 20 March 2018, both Java 8 and 11 are officially supported. Major release versions of Java, along with their release dates : JDK 1.0 ( January 23, 1996 ) JDK 1.1 ( February 19, 1997 ) J2SE 1.2 ( December 8, 1998 ) J2SE 1.3 ( May 8, 2000 ) J2SE 1.4 ( February 6, 2002 ) J2SE 5.0 ( September 30, 2004 ) Java SE 6 ( December 11, 2006 ) Java SE 7 ( July 28, 2011 ) Java SE 8 ( March 18, 2014 ) Java SE 9 ( September 21, 2017 ) Java SE 10 ( March 20, 2018 ) Java SE 11 ( September 25, 2018 ) Editions See also : Free Java implementations § Class library Java platform editions Java Card Micro Edition ( ME ) Standard Edition ( SE ) Enterprise Edition ( EE ) JavaFX ( bundled in JRE from 8 to 10 but separately for JavaFX 1. x, 2. x and 11 ) PersonalJava ( discontinued ) Sun has defined and supports four editions of Java targeting different application environments and segmented many of its APIs so that they belong to one of the platforms. The platforms are : Java Card for smartcards. Java Platform, Micro Edition ( Java ME ) -- targeting environments with limited resources. Java Platform, Standard Edition ( Java SE ) -- targeting workstation environments. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition ( Java EE ) -- targeting large distributed enterprise or Internet environments. The classes in the Java APIs are organized into separate groups called packages. Each package contains a set of related interfaces, classes, and exceptions. Refer to the separate platforms for a description of the packages available. Sun also provided an edition called PersonalJava that has been superseded by later, standards - based Java ME configuration - profile pairings. Execution system Java JVM and bytecode Main articles : Java ( software platform ) and Java virtual machine One design goal of Java is portability, which means that programs written for the Java platform must run similarly on any combination of hardware and operating system with adequate runtime support. This is achieved by compiling the Java language code to an intermediate representation called Java bytecode, instead of directly to architecture - specific machine code. Java bytecode instructions are analogous to machine code, but they are intended to be executed by a virtual machine ( VM ) written specifically for the host hardware. End users commonly use a Java Runtime Environment ( JRE ) installed on their own machine for standalone Java applications, or in a web browser for Java applets. Standard libraries provide a generic way to access host - specific features such as graphics, threading, and networking. The use of universal bytecode makes porting simple. However, the overhead of interpreting bytecode into machine instructions made interpreted programs almost always run more slowly than native executables. Just - in - time ( JIT ) compilers that compile bytecodes to machine code during runtime were introduced from an early stage. Java itself is platform - independent and is adapted to the particular platform it is to run on by a Java virtual machine for it, which translates the Java bytecode into the platform 's machine language. Performance Main article : Java performance Programs written in Java have a reputation for being slower and requiring more memory than those written in C++. However, Java programs ' execution speed improved significantly with the introduction of just - in - time compilation in 1997 / 1998 for Java 1.1, the addition of language features supporting better code analysis ( such as inner classes, the StringBuilder class, optional assertions, etc. ), and optimizations in the Java virtual machine, such as HotSpot becoming the default for Sun 's JVM in 2000. With Java 1.5, the performance was improved with the addition of the java. util. concurrent package, including lock free implementations of the ConcurrentMaps and other multi-core collections, and it was improved further with Java 1.6. Non-jvm Some platforms offer direct hardware support for Java ; there are microcontrollers that can run Java bytecode in hardware instead of a software Java virtual machine, and some ARM based processors could have hardware support for executing Java bytecode through their Jazelle option, though support has mostly been dropped in current implementations of ARM. Automatic memory management Java uses an automatic garbage collector to manage memory in the object lifecycle. The programmer determines when objects are created, and the Java runtime is responsible for recovering the memory once objects are no longer in use. Once no references to an object remain, the unreachable memory becomes eligible to be freed automatically by the garbage collector. Something similar to a memory leak may still occur if a programmer 's code holds a reference to an object that is no longer needed, typically when objects that are no longer needed are stored in containers that are still in use. If methods for a nonexistent object are called, a `` null pointer exception '' is thrown. One of the ideas behind Java 's automatic memory management model is that programmers can be spared the burden of having to perform manual memory management. In some languages, memory for the creation of objects is implicitly allocated on the stack or explicitly allocated and deallocated from the heap. In the latter case, the responsibility of managing memory resides with the programmer. If the program does not deallocate an object, a memory leak occurs. If the program attempts to access or deallocate memory that has already been deallocated, the result is undefined and difficult to predict, and the program is likely to become unstable or crash. This can be partially remedied by the use of smart pointers, but these add overhead and complexity. Note that garbage collection does not prevent `` logical '' memory leaks, i.e., those where the memory is still referenced but never used. Garbage collection may happen at any time. Ideally, it will occur when a program is idle. It is guaranteed to be triggered if there is insufficient free memory on the heap to allocate a new object ; this can cause a program to stall momentarily. Explicit memory management is not possible in Java. Java does not support C / C++ style pointer arithmetic, where object addresses and unsigned integers ( usually long integers ) can be used interchangeably. This allows the garbage collector to relocate referenced objects and ensures type safety and security. As in C++ and some other object - oriented languages, variables of Java 's primitive data types are either stored directly in fields ( for objects ) or on the stack ( for methods ) rather than on the heap, as is commonly true for non-primitive data types ( but see escape analysis ). This was a conscious decision by Java 's designers for performance reasons. Java contains multiple types of garbage collectors. By default, HotSpot uses the parallel scavenge garbage collector. However, there are also several other garbage collectors that can be used to manage the heap. For 90 % of applications in Java, the Concurrent Mark - Sweep ( CMS ) garbage collector is sufficient. Oracle aims to replace CMS with the Garbage - First collector ( G1 ). Syntax Main article : Java syntax Dependency graph of the Java Core classes ( created with jdeps and Gephi ). The most frequently used classes Object and String appear in the centre of the diagram. The syntax of Java is largely influenced by C++. Unlike C++, which combines the syntax for structured, generic, and object - oriented programming, Java was built almost exclusively as an object - oriented language. All code is written inside classes, and every data item is an object, with the exception of the primitive data types, ( i.e. integers, floating - point numbers, boolean values, and characters ), which are not objects for performance reasons. Java reuses some popular aspects of C++ ( such as the printf method ). Unlike C++, Java does not support operator overloading or multiple inheritance for classes, though multiple inheritance is supported for interfaces. Java uses comments similar to those of C++. There are three different styles of comments : a single line style marked with two slashes ( / / ), a multiple line style opened with / * and closed with * /, and the Javadoc commenting style opened with / * * and closed with * /. The Javadoc style of commenting allows the user to run the Javadoc executable to create documentation for the program and can be read by some integrated development environments ( IDEs ) such as Eclipse to allow developers to access documentation within the IDE. `` Hello world '' example The traditional `` Hello, world ! '' program can be written in Java as : class HelloWorldApp ( public static void main ( String ( ) args ) ( System. out. println ( `` Hello World ! '' ) ; / / Prints the string to the console. ) ) Source files must be named after the public class they contain, appending the suffix. java, for example, HelloWorldApp. java. It must first be compiled into bytecode, using a Java compiler, producing a file named HelloWorldApp. class. Only then can it be executed, or `` launched ''. The Java source file may only contain one public class, but it can contain multiple classes with other than public access modifier and any number of public inner classes. When the source file contains multiple classes, make one class `` public '' and name the source file with that public class name. A class that is not declared public may be stored in any. java file. The compiler will generate a class file for each class defined in the source file. The name of the class file is the name of the class, with. class appended. For class file generation, anonymous classes are treated as if their name were the concatenation of the name of their enclosing class, a $, and an integer. The keyword public denotes that a method can be called from code in other classes, or that a class may be used by classes outside the class hierarchy. The class hierarchy is related to the name of the directory in which the. java file is located. This is called an access level modifier. Other access level modifiers include the keywords private and protected. The keyword static in front of a method indicates a static method, which is associated only with the class and not with any specific instance of that class. Only static methods can be invoked without a reference to an object. Static methods can not access any class members that are not also static. Methods that are not designated static are instance methods and require a specific instance of a class to operate. The keyword void indicates that the main method does not return any value to the caller. If a Java program is to exit with an error code, it must call System. exit ( ) explicitly. The method name `` main '' is not a keyword in the Java language. It is simply the name of the method the Java launcher calls to pass control to the program. Java classes that run in managed environments such as applets and Enterprise JavaBeans do not use or need a main ( ) method. A Java program may contain multiple classes that have main methods, which means that the VM needs to be explicitly told which class to launch from. The main method must accept an array of String objects. By convention, it is referenced as args although any other legal identifier name can be used. Since Java 5, the main method can also use variable arguments, in the form of public static void main ( String... args ), allowing the main method to be invoked with an arbitrary number of String arguments. The effect of this alternate declaration is semantically identical ( to the args parameter which is still an array of String objects ), but it allows an alternative syntax for creating and passing the array. The Java launcher launches Java by loading a given class ( specified on the command line or as an attribute in a JAR ) and starting its public static void main ( String ( ) ) method. Stand - alone programs must declare this method explicitly. The String ( ) args parameter is an array of String objects containing any arguments passed to the class. The parameters to main are often passed by means of a command line. Printing is part of a Java standard library : The System class defines a public static field called out. The out object is an instance of the PrintStream class and provides many methods for printing data to standard out, including println ( String ) which also appends a new line to the passed string. The string `` Hello World ! '' is automatically converted to a String object by the compiler. Example with methods / / This is an example of a single line comment using two slashes / * This is an example of a multiple line comment using the slash and asterisk. This type of comment can be used to hold a lot of information or deactivate code, but it is very important to remember to close the comment. * / package fibsandlies ; import java. util. HashMap ; / * * * This is an example of a Javadoc comment ; Javadoc can compile documentation * from this text. Javadoc comments must immediately precede the class, method, or field being documented. * / public class FibCalculator extends Fibonacci implements Calculator ( private static Map < Integer, Integer > memoized = new HashMap < Integer, Integer > ( ) ; / * * The main method written as follows is used by the JVM as a starting point for the program. * / public static void main ( String ( ) args ) ( memoized. put ( 1, 1 ) ; memoized. put ( 2, 1 ) ; System. out. println ( fibonacci ( 12 ) ) ; / / Get the 12th Fibonacci number and print to console ) / * * * An example of a method written in Java, wrapped in a class. * Given a non-negative number FIBINDEX, returns * the Nth Fibonacci number, where N equals FIBINDEX. * @ param fibIndex The index of the Fibonacci number * @ return The Fibonacci number * / public static int fibonacci ( int fibIndex ) ( if ( memoized. containsKey ( fibIndex ) ) ( return memoized. get ( fibIndex ) ; ) else ( int answer = fibonacci ( fibIndex - 1 ) + fibonacci ( fibIndex - 2 ) ; memoized. put ( fibIndex, answer ) ; return answer ; ) ) ) Special classes Applet Main article : Java applet Java applets were programs that were embedded in other applications, typically in a Web page displayed in a web browser. The Java applet API is now deprecated since Java 9 in 2017. Servlet Main article : Java servlet Java servlet technology provides Web developers with a simple, consistent mechanism for extending the functionality of a Web server and for accessing existing business systems. Servlets are server - side Java EE components that generate responses ( typically HTML pages ) to requests ( typically HTTP requests ) from clients. The Java servlet API has to some extent been superseded by two standard Java technologies for web services : the Java API for RESTful Web Services ( JAX - RS 2.0 ) useful for AJAX, JSON and REST services, and the Java API for XML Web Services ( JAX - WS ) useful for SOAP Web Services. Javaserver pages Main article : JavaServer Pages JavaServer Pages ( JSP ) are server - side Java EE components that generate responses, typically HTML pages, to HTTP requests from clients. JSPs embed Java code in an HTML page by using the special delimiters < % and % >. A JSP is compiled to a Java servlet, a Java application in its own right, the first time it is accessed. After that, the generated servlet creates the response. Swing application Main article : Swing ( Java ) Swing is a graphical user interface library for the Java SE platform. It is possible to specify a different look and feel through the pluggable look and feel system of Swing. Clones of Windows, GTK+, and Motif are supplied by Sun. Apple also provides an Aqua look and feel for macOS. Where prior implementations of these looks and feels may have been considered lacking, Swing in Java SE 6 addresses this problem by using more native GUI widget drawing routines of the underlying platforms. Generics Main article : Generics in Java In 2004, generics were added to the Java language, as part of J2SE 5.0. Prior to the introduction of generics, each variable declaration had to be of a specific type. For container classes, for example, this is a problem because there is no easy way to create a container that accepts only specific types of objects. Either the container operates on all subtypes of a class or interface, usually Object, or a different container class has to be created for each contained class. Generics allow compile - time type checking without having to create many container classes, each containing almost identical code. In addition to enabling more efficient code, certain runtime exceptions are prevented from occurring, by issuing compile - time errors. If Java prevented all runtime type errors ( ClassCastException ' s ) from occurring, it would be type safe. In 2016, the type system of Java was proven unsound. Criticism Main article : Criticism of Java Criticisms directed at Java include the implementation of generics, speed, the handling of unsigned numbers, the implementation of floating - point arithmetic, and a history of security vulnerabilities in the primary Java VM implementation HotSpot. Class libraries This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2014 ) Main article : Java Class Library The Java Class Library is the standard library, developed to support application development in Java. It is controlled by Sun Microsystems in cooperation with others through the Java Community Process program. Companies or individuals participating in this process can influence the design and development of the APIs. This process has been a subject of controversy. The class library contains features such as : The core libraries, which include : IO / NIO Networking Reflection Concurrency Generics Scripting / Compiler Functional programming ( Lambda, Streaming ) Collection libraries that implement data structures such as lists, dictionaries, trees, sets, queues and double - ended queue, or stacks XML Processing ( Parsing, Transforming, Validating ) libraries Security Internationalization and localization libraries The integration libraries, which allow the application writer to communicate with external systems. These libraries include : The Java Database Connectivity ( JDBC ) API for database access Java Naming and Directory Interface ( JNDI ) for lookup and discovery RMI and CORBA for distributed application development JMX for managing and monitoring applications User interface libraries, which include : The ( heavyweight, or native ) Abstract Window Toolkit ( AWT ), which provides GUI components, the means for laying out those components and the means for handling events from those components The ( lightweight ) Swing libraries, which are built on AWT but provide ( non-native ) implementations of the AWT widgetry APIs for audio capture, processing, and playback JavaFX A platform dependent implementation of the Java virtual machine that is the means by which the bytecodes of the Java libraries and third party applications are executed Plugins, which enable applets to be run in web browsers Java Web Start, which allows Java applications to be efficiently distributed to end users across the Internet Licensing and documentation Documentation Main article : Javadoc Javadoc is a comprehensive documentation system, created by Sun Microsystems, used by many Java developers. It provides developers with an organized system for documenting their code. Javadoc comments have an extra asterisk at the beginning, i.e. the delimiters are / * * and * /, whereas the normal multi-line comments in Java are set off with the delimiters / * and * /. Implementations See also : Free Java implementations Oracle Corporation is the current owner of the official implementation of the Java SE platform, following their acquisition of Sun Microsystems on January 27, 2010. This implementation is based on the original implementation of Java by Sun. The Oracle implementation is available for Microsoft Windows ( still works for XP, while only later versions are currently officially supported ), macOS, Linux, and Solaris. Because Java lacks any formal standardization recognized by Ecma International, ISO / IEC, ANSI, or other third - party standards organization, the Oracle implementation is the de facto standard. The Oracle implementation is packaged into two different distributions : The Java Runtime Environment ( JRE ) which contains the parts of the Java SE platform required to run Java programs and is intended for end users, and the Java Development Kit ( JDK ), which is intended for software developers and includes development tools such as the Java compiler, Javadoc, Jar, and a debugger. OpenJDK is another notable Java SE implementation that is licensed under the GNU GPL. The implementation started when Sun began releasing the Java source code under the GPL. As of Java SE 7, OpenJDK is the official Java reference implementation. The goal of Java is to make all implementations of Java compatible. Historically, Sun 's trademark license for usage of the Java brand insists that all implementations be `` compatible ''. This resulted in a legal dispute with Microsoft after Sun claimed that the Microsoft implementation did not support RMI or JNI and had added platform - specific features of their own. Sun sued in 1997, and, in 2001, won a settlement of US $20 million, as well as a court order enforcing the terms of the license from Sun. As a result, Microsoft no longer ships Java with Windows. Platform - independent Java is essential to Java EE, and an even more rigorous validation is required to certify an implementation. This environment enables portable server - side applications. Use outside the Java platform The Java programming language requires the presence of a software platform in order for compiled programs to be executed. Oracle supplies the Java platform for use with Java. The Android SDK is an alternative software platform, used primarily for developing Android applications with its own GUI system. The Eclipse IDE platform supports Java, but provides its own GUI system SWT. Android The Android operating system makes extensive use of Java - related technology. The Java language is a key pillar in Android, an open source mobile operating system. Although Android, built on the Linux kernel, is written largely in C, the Android SDK uses the Java language as the basis for Android applications. The bytecode language supported by the Android SDK is incompatible with Java bytecode and runs on its own virtual machine, optimized for low - memory devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Depending on the Android version, the bytecode is either interpreted by the Dalvik virtual machine or compiled into native code by the Android Runtime. Android does not provide the full Java SE standard library, although the Android SDK does include an independent implementation of a large subset of it. It supports Java 6 and some Java 7 features, offering an implementation compatible with the standard library ( Apache Harmony ). Controversy See also : Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. The use of Java - related technology in Android led to a legal dispute between Oracle and Google. On May 7, 2012, a San Francisco jury found that if APIs could be copyrighted, then Google had infringed Oracle 's copyrights by the use of Java in Android devices. District Judge William Haskell Alsup ruled on May 31, 2012, that APIs can not be copyrighted, but this was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in May 2014. On May 26, 2016, the district court decided in favor of Google, ruling the copyright infringement of the Java API in Android constitutes fair use. 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Question: who is the inventor of java programming language
Answer: James Gosling