Java, released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, continues to thrive as a pillar of the software industry.Initially developed for consumer electronics, Java shifted focus to internet applications with its platform independence feature.Universities offer Java programming courses, and the language evolved with features like JavaBeans and JDBC in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Java, open-sourced in 2006 and later acquired by Oracle, remains a top choice for enterprise software due to its stability and ecosystem.