java JAVA语言的缩写是什么？

What is the abbreviation of JAVA language?

提问by Venkat

Any one know, What is the abbreviation of JAVA language?

有谁知道，JAVA语言的缩写是什么？

回答by Bart Kiers

From: James Gosling
Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT
To: Jonathan Schwartz
Subject: How was Java named?

The story goes like this:

We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name.

Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could neither afford the price nor the time of a conventional product naming process. He agreed to do something rather odd, but effective and quick: he acted as a facilitator at a meeting where about a dozen of us locked ourselves in a room for an afternoon. He started asking us questions like "How does this thing make you feel?" (Excited!) "What else makes you feel that way?" (Java!) We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a sorting process where we ended up with a ranking of the names. We ended up with a dozen name candidates and sent them off to the lawyers: they worked down the list until they hit one that cleared their search. "Java" was the fourth name on the list. The first name on the list was "Silk", which I hated but everyone else liked. My favorite was "Lyric", the third one on the list, but it didn't pass the lawyers test. I don't remember what the other candidate names where.

So, who named Java? Marketing organized the meeting, the consultant ran it, and a whole pile of us did a lot of yelling out of random words. I'm honestly not real sure who said "Java" first, but I'm pretty sure it was Mark Opperman.

There certainly wasn't any brilliant marketing mind who went through a coherent thought process.

发件人：James Gosling
日期：太平洋夏令时间 2007 年 8 月 24 日晚上 8:16:58
收件人：Jonathan Schwartz
主题：Java 是如何命名的？

故事是这样的：

我们需要一个名字。我们一直在使用“oak”（基本上是我随机选择的），虽然团队越来越喜欢它，但商标律师排除了它。我们就名称进行了很多电子邮件辩论，但没有得到解决。我们最终处于尴尬的境地，阻止我们发货的第一件事就是名称。

我们的营销主管认识一位“命名顾问”（我不记得他的名字，但他很棒）。我们负担不起传统产品命名过程的价格和时间。他同意做一些相当奇怪但有效且快速的事情：他在一次会议上充当协调人，我们大约有十几个人把自己锁在一个房间里一个下午。他开始问我们诸如“这件事让你感觉如何？”之类的问题。（兴奋！）“还有什么让你有这种感觉？” （Java！）我们最终得到了一个布满随机单词的板。然后他让我们完成了一个排序过程，我们最终得到了名字的排名。我们最终选出了十几名候选人并将他们发送给律师：他们逐一列出清单，直到找到一个清除了他们的搜索。“Java”是名单上的第四个名字。名单上的第一个名字是“丝绸”，我讨厌但其他人都喜欢。我最喜欢的是《抒情》，排在榜单第三位，但没有通过律师考试。我不记得其他候选人的名字在哪里。

那么，谁命名了 Java？营销组织了会议，顾问主持了会议，我们一大群人乱七八糟地大喊大叫。老实说，我不确定谁先说“Java”，但我很确定是 Mark Opperman。

当然，没有任何聪明的营销头脑经历过一个连贯的思考过程。

-- http://blogs.oracle.com/jonathan/entry/better_is_always_different(wayback machine mirror)

-- http://blogs.oracle.com/jonathan/entry/better_is_always_different（回归机器镜像）

回答by T.J. Crowder

Java (not JAVA) isn't an acronym, it's just a name.

Java（不是 JAVA）不是首字母缩写词，它只是一个名称。

回答by Matthew Flaschen

It's notan abbreviation. This is a common misconception. It was chosenat a naming meeting almost at random.

这不是缩写。这是一个普遍的误解。有人选择在随机几乎满足命名。

回答by Matthew Flaschen

Java isn't an acronym. It's simply a name.

Java 不是首字母缩略词。这只是一个名字。