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You might have heard of Java, but do you really understand the significance of a Java Virtual Machine?

Thanks to the 2001 Sun/Microsoft settlement regarding their legal dispute over the use of the Java Virtual Machine in the Microsoft environment, many corporations may be facing a problem of Y2K ...

Java virtual machines (JVMs) are built from a variety of pieces. One is the Java language. Java bytecodes are the machine code for a JVM, and Java compilers are needed to translate from Java ...

Forgive me for circling repeatedly around this point, but the possibility that the Java Virtual Machine might long outlive the Java language itself is becoming increasingly intriguing to me. More ...

All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

Containers likely to disrupt Java Virtual Machine usage, survey says Java VMs, the original application 'containers,' are now facing stiff competition from a new generation of containers.

Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, edge computing and microservices, owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine—separating operating systems and ...

Users demand that their applications run fast, but working with Java bytecode presents optimization problems that other architectures do not encounter. Here we look at how to improve the performance ...

New Study: Azul Zing Java Virtual Machine typically pays for itself in less than three months by reducing development and infrastructure costs, and delivers a 3-year ROI of 224% Tweet this ...