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It was also in 1994, that Oak was renamed '''Java'''. An IP ([[intellectual property]]) search revealved that Oak had already been trademarked for another language so the team searched for a new name. The name Java was coined at a local coffee shop frequented by some of the members. It is not clear whether the name is an acronymn or not. Most likely, it is not, however some accounts claim that it stands for the names of '''J'''ames Gosling, '''A'''rthur '''V'''an Hoff, and '''A'''ndy Bechtolsheim.

In October of 1994, HotJava and the Java platform was demoed for Sun excecutivesexecutives. Java 1.0a was made available for download in 1994, but the first public release of Java and the HotJava [[web browser]] came on [[May 23]], [[1995]], at the SunWorld conference. The annoucement was made by John Gage, the Director of Science for Sun Microsystems. His announcement was accompanied by a surprise announcement by [[Marc Andreessen]], Executive Vice President of [[Netscape_Communications_Corporation|Netscape]], that Netscape would be including Java support in its browsers.

In January of [[1996]], the JavaSoft business group was formed by Sun Microsystems to develop the technology.