Java Programming Language was developed by James Gosling, Chris Warth, Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and Ed Frank at Sun Microsystems, Inc in the year 1991. At first Java Programming Language was named as Oak, later that it was renamed to Java in the year 1995. Java Programming is a platform independent language. The Internet (World Wide Web) made Java programming more valuable. Since, Internet is connected to different types of systems which having different CPU's & environments, it must have the programs to run on any OS, CPU and Platform. Since, Java programming obtain platform independence and can able to run on any platform like Unix, Intel, Mac etc., it was widely used. Java language also protects two other major issues of Internet, they are security & portability.