Programming in Java-交通大学资讯工程学系.ppt

Programming in Java Getting Started 蔡文能 交通大學資訊工程學系 tsaiwn@.tw Outline Java History … Java vs. C++ Compilation and Interpretation Java Platform Java Applications Java Applets Language Basics Inside the Applets Applications using GUI More about Applets Java History December, 1990. Patrick Naughton started the Green Project in Sun. He recruited James Gosling and Mike Sheridan to help start the project. James Gosling is of emacs fame. (Not James Bond :-) April 1991 The Green Project (Naughton, Gosling and Sheridan) settled on smart consumer electronics as the delivery platform June 1991 (Gosling想為該語言命名時看到了窗外的一棵橡樹 ) Gosling started working on the Oak compiler (in C), renamed “Java” later. Naughton, Gosling and Sheridan wrote the runtime-interpreter, also in C Language. August 1991 Green team demonstrates basic user interface ideas and graphics system to Sun co-founders Scott McNealy and Bill Joy. Interactive TV Summer 1992 Massive amounts of hacking on Oak, and related components. October 1992 Wayne Rosing joined from Sun Labs and assumed management of the team. March 1993 The team, incorporated as First Person, focused on interactive television after learning about Time Warners RFP for its interactive cable TV. April 1993 NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first graphical browser for the Internet, was released. June 1993 Time Warner went with SGI for its interactive cable TV trial, despite acknowledged superiority of Sun technology. Change to Internet Summer 1993 Naughton flew 300,000 miles selling Oak to anyone involved in consumer electronics and interactive television. The rate at which people were gaining access to the Internet reaches breakneck speed. April 1994 Sun Interactive created, half of FirstPerson employees leave to join it. June 1994 Liveoak project started. Designed by Bill Joy to use Oak for a big small operating system project. July 1994 Naughton simply retargeted Oak at the Internet after writing a throwaway implementation of a Web brows