James Gosling initiated the Java language in June 1991 at Sun Microsystems.
The language initially named as "Oak" which renamed to Java in 1995.
Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1996.
Sun Microsystems was acquired by the Oracle Corporation in 2009-10.
- JDK 1.0 (January 23, 1996)
- JDK 1.1 (February 19, 1996)
- 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, 2018)
- Java SE 12 (March 19, 2019)
- Java SE 13 (September 17, 2019)