JAVA Virtual Machine

[Phillipe Rodrigues]

Hello,
Please do let me know the use of JAVA Virtual Machine?Whats its use?Where does it reside?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

It's the program that executes Java bytecode -- i.e., java.exe.

[Phillipe Rodrigues]

Can there be an instance of JVM?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Rakesh Mestry:
Can there be an instance of JVM?

"An instance of the JVM" would generally refer to one copy of the running program; you can have many copies of java.exe running at once, so indeed, you can have many instances of the JVM on one computer.

Technically, some JVM implementations might allow you to have more then one instance inside a single program, although Sun's JVM implmentation can't do that.

[Phillipe Rodrigues]

Do environment variables have a relation with JVM.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Rather flattering little history of the JVM here, and more details on Wikipedia.

The environment variables (well, the PATH) tell the OS where to find the JVM.

[Rob Spoor]

Don't forget CLASSPATH. It informs the JVM where to look for classes by default.

[Mandar Khire]

Try this link
jvm
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again jvm

[Campbell Ritchie]

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