I m keen to know that is Java Language is open source programming language or not?

Question

Java language is open source or not?

Answer 1

The simple way to answer your question is to direct you to the java site where you can read the licensing. This is how you can tell what license a software is release under e.g open source, free, shareware...

http://www.java.com/en/download/license....

Answer 2

The Java language itself is not Open Source, it was developed by Sun Microsystems. However, Sun have released most of the language implementation under the GNU GPL License.

Java is used to develop many Open Source applications, many of which can be found on Source Forge (www.sourceforge.net) - currently over 30,000.