James Gosling, acclaimed as the father of open standards-based technology Java, is visiting India in May to participate in the annual Sun Tech Days event in Hyderabad.

His visit is expected to generate a lot of interest in the developer community as the Java platform is used by over 300,000 developers in the country, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd director (Marketing) K P Unnikrishnan told PTI in Mumbai on Sunday.

The country's Java community has been posting a 40% growth annually and its vast pool of engineering talent is also promoting the country as a preferred destination for Java-based development.

Gosling, who did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine, is hailed as the inventor of the technology.

On his first visit to India, Gosling would be a key participant at the Sun Tech Day, taking place on May 20-21.

At present, Gosling is vice-president and Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems and is also a researcher at Sun Labs, with interest in software development tools.

The Sun Tech Days is Sun Microsystems' annual developer conference and provides Information Technology solutions to the developer community. The theme for this year is 'Turning Ideas into Innovation'.