The combination of the Java Virtual Machine (Java interpreter), the core class library and supporting files, all of which are required to run a Java program. See Java and Java Virtual Machine.

Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

The Java Compiler Compiler (JavaCC) facilitates designing and implementing your own programming language in Java. You can use it to build handy little languages to solve problems at hand, or build ...

If Java invokes an undefined method, the interpreter first attempts to evaluate the default handler for undefined methods—a method named simply invoke (). If the script also fails to specify ...

A federal judge in Baltimore on Tuesday set a schedule that Microsoft must meet for including Sun Microsystems' Java programming language with its Windows operating system. The decision by U.S ...