This report goes through Sun Microsystems programming language Java from early years until today and what's to expect in the near future. Therefor are the main topics Java history, Java today and the next coming
trends which will give us, and the reader, a deeper understanding of Java and its architecture. We put a focus on describing new important features in each release. Each release has many new functionalities that improves the Java technology. But Java is not outstanding and totally free from drawbacks so we mentions both advantages and disadvantages. Release features that exists in this report are Abstract Windowing Tookit (AWT), Swing, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Native Inter-face (JNI), Java Security Model, generics and more. We had also written and discussed about Sun Microsystems licenses for Java, for instance the open-source topic which have both advantages and risks. Another topic we bring up is the potential threat from Microsoft's .NET, specially C#.

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