Ask HN: Books about the History of Java?

Hi HN, my startup is bootstrapping a programming language that abstracts over client/server network datasync by building it into the language/runtime itself, like how Java abstracts over memory management.

How did Java grow? IIUC Sun Microsystems developed hardware and wanted userspace applications written for other platforms to work on their platform. But nobody wants to switch out their core programming stack. How did they do it? Was this fully about 1995-era web vendors trying to write portable web application servers that their customers/developers wanted to be portable across servers? In other words, Sun got super lucky and Java doesn't happen without the web happening coincidently?