RebelLabs' latest report takes a look at the non-code aspect of Java and the end-to-end process behind the approval process, decision-making, community involvement and global machine that is Java. Download the entire, beautiful PDF here: http://0t.ee/historyofjava

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A ZERO-CODE GLANCE AT THE JAVA MACHINE
A SHORT HISTORY
OF NEARLY
EVERYTHING JAVA

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J ava is here
RedMonk's quarterly programming language rankings measure # of projects
on GitHub and # of tags on Stack Overflow to estimate the real-life usage
of a particular language, sans internet noise.

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The TIOBE programming community index is a long-term study that gets
updated monthly on languages in use through tracking search engines and
making colorful squiggly lines.

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1995
JDK Alpha and Beta
January 1996
JDK 1.0 called “Oak”
December 1998
Sun founds the JCP
J2SE 1.2
September 2001
J2EE 1.3
February 2002
J2SE 1.4
November 2003
J2EE 1.4
May 2006
Java EE 5
October 2006
Apache Harmony created
April 2009
Oracle buys Sun
December 2009
Java EE 6
February 2011
Apache Harmony discontinued
June 2013
Java EE 7
2015/2016
Java SE 9 / Java EE 8
February 1997
JDK 1.1
RMI, jdbc, JIT
December 1999
J2EE 1.2
First Enterprise
Edition standard
May 2000
J2SE 1.3
HotSpot JVM
included
September 2004
J2SE 5
“Tiger”, generics,
annotations, autoboxing,
JMM fix
December 2006
Java SE 6 released
“Mustang”, Scripting language
support, Java Compiler API
July 2011
Java SE 7
“Dolphin”, invokedynamic,
try-with-resources,
strings in switch,
new nio, Timsort, new
concurrency primitives
March 2014
Java SE 8
Lambdas, Stream API, default
methods in interfaces, Nashorn,
etc unsigned arithmetic,
sensible Date&Time API,
annotations on types
A relatively short timeline of Java releases and events,
including all the animal code names we could find.

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INITIATION
EARLY DRAFT
PUBLIC REVIEW
PUBLIC REVIEW
MAINTENANCE
PROPOSED FINAL DRAFT
JSR Review
JSR approval Ballot (EC Vote)
& Expert Group Formed
Early Draft Review
2-4 weeks
30-90 days
30-90 days
14 days
14 days
14 days
30 days
7 days
Public Review
Public Draft Approval Ballot
(EC Vote)
Final Approval Ballot (EC Vote)
Final Release
Maintenance Review
Maintenance Review Ballot
(EC Vote)
The JCP process in a nutshell, from idea phase to post-release maintenance,
complete with micro-stages inside of larger periods of anxious waiting.

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1. DRAFT
In circulation by
the author for
initial review and
consensus-building
2. POSTED
Entered into the JEP
Archive by the author
for wider review
3. SUBMITTED
Declared by the
author to be ready for
evaluation
4. CANDIDATE
Accepted for inclusion
in the Roadmap by
the OpenJDK Lead
5. FUNDED
Judged by a Group or
Area Lead to be fully
funded
6. COMPLETED
Finished and
delivered
A snapshot of the OpenJDK submission process for Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs),
which are in turn made up of lots of little acronyms themselves.

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1. Print, sign, and fax back
the Oracle Contributor
Agreement
(aka Time to bust out
the fax machine)
2. Get started by
downloading and setting
up your build environment
3. Pick a simple, self-contained
fix to start,
and get familiar with the
submittal process
4. Work with a Java engineer
to test, validate, and
integrate your fix.
A simle step-by-step process for working with Oracle for making
contributions to OpenJDK...now accepting faxes!

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SURVEYS SHOW
THAT THESE
TECHNOLOGIES
ARE KICK-ASS…
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