Java was created in 1991 at Sun Microsystems by James Gosling and others. It derives its syntax from C and object-oriented features from C++. Java is portable, secure, object-oriented, robust, multithreaded, architecture neutral, distributed, and dynamic. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) executes Java bytecode, which is platform independent. The Java Development Kit (JDK) includes tools for developing Java programs like the compiler and JRE. The JRE provides the minimum requirements to run Java programs and includes the JVM and core classes. A simple "Hello World" Java program is presented.