Question: Was the board game Java or Tikal published first?
Context: Tikal is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.  The theme of the game is that of adventurers exploring parts of a Central American jungle in which artifacts and temples are discovered. Thinking in Java (ISBN  ) is a book about the Java programming language, written by Bruce Eckel and first published in 1998.  Prentice Hall published the 4th edition of the work in 2006.  The book represents a print version of Eckel’s “Hands-on Java” seminar. Pasang is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Brunei.  The game is often referred to as Pasang Emas which is actually a software implementation of the traditional board game.  The object of this game is to acquire the most points by capturing black and white tokens on the board.  Black tokens are worth 1 point, and white tokens are worth 2 points.  The board is initially laid out with all 120 black and white tokens in one of over 30 traditional patterns.  Players choose a piece called a "ka" which is used to capture the tokens on the board.  Each player's "ka" moves around the board capturing as many tokens as possible.  As a note, the "kas" are the only mobile pieces in the game.  The other pieces are stationary, and are captured by the "kas".  Players must capture token(s) during their turn, or lose the game.  When all tokens have been captured from the board, the player with the most points is the winner.  However, if there are any tokens left on the board, and none can be captured on a player's turn, then that player loses the game, and the other player is the winner. Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s.  Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997.  His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon". Java is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.  It is illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel. Surakarta is a little-known Indonesian strategy board game for two players, named after the ancient city of Surakarta in central Java.  The game features an unusual method of capture which is "possibly unique" and "not known to exist in any other recorded board game". Meurimueng-rimueng peuet ploh is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Sumatra, Indonesia.  The last part of the name, ploh, is sometimes spelled "plo".  It is specifically played by the Acehnese.  The game was published in the book entitled "The Achehnese" by Hurgronje, O'Sullivan, and Wilkinson in 1906 and described on page 204.  It is also played in Java, Indonesia where it is called Dam-daman.  However, Dam-daman is also a general term for draughts or checkers in Indonesia.  The game is also played in India especially in Punjab where it is called Ratti-chitti-bakri.  The game is basically an enlarged version of Alquerque.  It is specifically four times the size of an Alquerque board which is the same board used for Zamma.  The rules are exactly those of Alquerque, except that captures are not compulsory. Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) is a specification published for the use of Java on embedded devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.  MIDP is part of the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) framework and sits on top of Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), a set of lower level programming interfaces.  MIDP was developed under the Java Community Process.  The first MIDP devices were launched in April 2001. SQL/JRT, or "SQL Routines and Types for the Java Programming Language", is an extension to the SQL standard first published as ISO/IEC 9075-13:2002 (part 13 of ).  SQL/JRT specifies the ability to invoke static Java methods as routines from within SQL applications, commonly referred to as "Java stored procedures".  SQL/JRT also calls for the ability to use Java classes as SQL structured user-defined types.  The two parts of the extension originate from the earlier ANSI SQLJ part 1 and 2 standards (not to be confused with SQLJ part 0, which defined an embedding of SQL into Java, later standardized by ISO as SQL/OLB.) Castle Ravenloft Board Game is a 2010 board game published by Wizards of the Coast.  It was the first game released in the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure System board game series.
Answer: Tikal