JAVA INTRODUCTION -(core java) EASY TO UNDERSTAND (2018)
THE BLUEJ COMPILER IS EASY TO USE - the link is given below
https://www.bluej.org
CREATOR OF JAVA ---James Gosling
Who is the owner of Java
Sun Microsystems created Java. Oracle bought Sun, and thus they became the owners of Java. Java (JVM and JDK) is open source, and you are free to use it. This is under the GPL though, and if they do any changes to the actual JVM or JDK, they will have to release those changes.
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses.
The latest version is Java 10, released on March 20, 2018,
Versions--
DK 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)