The inventor of the Java programming language, James Gosling, has stepped down from Oracle. He made it public in his blog entry this Friday.

He further reported that he had resigned the company on April 2 and has not yet taken a job elsewhere. He wrote, “As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good”.

He earlier worked as the Chief Technology Officer of Sun's developer products group and then served as the chief technology officer for Oracle's client software group.

He engaged a group of engineers to build an object-oriented programming language that would run on a virtual machine, allowing programs to run on multiple platforms, for instance on television set-top boxes. This work later on developed into Java when it was inserted into the Netscape browser.

Gosling had stressed the importance of Java to Oracle, a month ago. But he also expressed his disappointment over the growing politicization of the Java Community Process.