What is the meaning of java

Answer 1

It was a beautiful day at Sun Microsystems`s building, James Goslin team were working in a new programming language to allow machines to communicate with each other, and be able to run in any platform. They were pretty excited with their new project, but there was a problem, they didn`t knew what name to give to this new language. The team really wanted to call their project by the name: Oak, to make a tribute to a tree(oak) in front of Goslin`s office. But there was already a tecnology called Oak. Then James Goslin`s team joined in a room to solve this problem. And then Goslin asked his team: -What makes you get excited?- His team answered -A strong coffee or a "java coffee"(one of the most strong coffees are produced in Java island, so north americans usually refer to this kind of coffee as "java coffee"). So James Goslin thinks: that`s it! Java will be the name of our programming language. So for this reason, today we know the multiplatform language as "Java". Hope you like the story.

Answer 2

java is an island name in indonesia, that's where I'm now. its location is at the east of Bali
as for why they choose the name, it's already answered, I'm just adding some information regarding it ;)