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== History ==
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The Java platform and language began as an internal project at Sun Microsystems in the December 1990 timeframe. Patrick Naughton, an engineer at Sun, had become increasingly frustrated with the state of Sun's [[C Plus Plus|C++]] and [[C programming language|C]] [[API]]s and tools. While considering moving to [[NeXT]], Patrick was offered a chance to work on new technology and thus the '''Stealth Project''' was started.
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In November of that year, the Green Project was spun off to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems: FirstPerson, Inc. The team relocated to Palo Alto. The FirstPerson team was interested in building highly interactive devices and when [[Time Warner]] issued an RFP for a [[set-top box]], FirstPerson changed their target and responded with a proposal for a set-top box platform. However, the cable industry felt that their platform gave too much control to the user and FirstPerson lost their bid to [[SGI]]. An additional deal with [[3DO]] for a set-top box also failed to materialize. FirstPerson was unable to generate any interest within the [[cable TV]] industry for their platform. Following their failures, the company, FirstPerson, was rolled back into Sun.
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In June and July of 1994, after a 3 day brain storm session with John Gage, James Gosling, Bill Joy, Patrick Naughton, Wayne Rosing, and Eric Schmidt, the team re-targeted yet again its efforts, this time to use the technology for the [[Internet]]. They felt that with the advent of the [[Mosaic web browser]], the Internet was on its way to evolving into the same highly interactive vision that they had had for the cable TV network. Patrick Naughton wrote a small web browser, WebRunner, as a prototype. WebRunner would later be renamed HotJava.
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