Very soon after the James Gosling's Java language and its virtual machine (JVM) was introduced by Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s, it was king of the world, having kicked off the move toward confederations of connected devices that 15 years later is now called the Internet of Things. .

Java was in web servers and a vital part of the web services structure (now referred to as The Cloud), in mobile phones and in a variety of both wired and wirelessly connected: embedded devices (what is now called the Internet of Things). It is even the underpinning the open source Eclipse Integrated Development Environment adopted by many embedded design companies.

But with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle in 2010 and along with it the rights and responsibilities for supporting Java, the corporate push seemed mainly toward its use and promotion in its business and corporate IT accounts. It remained alive and well in mobile and smartphones and is a vital part of what makes them the multimedia and multifunction marvels they are. But whether that had much to do with Oracle's efforts or just market and technology momentum remains open to question.

But like almost every large corporate IT-focused software and hardware company, Oracle had totally missed the device connectivity revolution that was occurring which Java – along with IPv6 in 2000 and 6LoWPAN in 2007 – helped kick start.

Now that everyone's attention is focused on the renamed connectivity revolution called the Internet of Things, Oracle this week has made an impressive bid to retake much of that lost ground.

After two years in development, Oracle Corp. rolled out its Java 8 implementation with a little bit of something for every segment of the connected environment, including servers, mobiles, embedded and IoT.

I have been looking over the wealth of information it has provided out and have made some tentative guesses about what is offering and how successful this roll out will make it in the new Internet of Things.

But first here is a summary of what the announceent consists, the services it will provide, and the support that will provided. In two words – impressive and overwhelming.

The Java 8 platform rollout includes its  Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8); Java Platform, Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8); and the related releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products.

Java SE 8 features

Among other things, Java SE 8 has implemented a number of enhancements that it says enhance developer productivity through reduced boilerplate code, improved collections and annotations, simpler parallel programming models and more efficient use of modern, multi-core processors.

Java SE Embedded

Java ME 8

 Oracle Java ME Embedded 8 Early Access 2 is now available as a binary runtime for Qualcomm 6270T (ARM9) Development Platform, Raspberry Pi (ARM11) and ST Microelectronics STM32F4DISCOVERY (ARM Cortex-M4).