I think a lot of those people, at least initially, were employed by Sun. They came up with verbose Java naming, class libraries and other idioms. Also, they wer

I think a lot of those people, at least initially, were employed by Sun. They came up with verbose Java naming, class libraries and other idioms. Also, they were the one who wrote J2EE specs and such. So it would be reasonable to say that Core Java developers set the tone of Java community at large.