do we need jre to run java programs ?

[naved momin]

do we need jre to run a java program or not ?
if yes please explain why we need it ?

[Bear Bibeault]

JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment. It consists of a number of components including the JVM. The JVM is responsible for running Java byte-code so without it, a class file is just a useless file of bytes.

[naved momin]

Bear Bibeault wrote:JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment. It consists of a number of components including the JVM. The JVM is responsible for running Java byte-code so without it, a class file is just a useless file of bytes.

hi thanks for the reply that means my teacher was wrong she said we dont need jre to run java programs ....
and 1 more thing ...can we write kernal for os in java
like in c we can write but can we in java ?

[Bear Bibeault]

hi thanks for the reply that means my teacher was wrong she said we dont need jre to run java programs ....

Yes, a JRE is required.

and 1 more thing

"one", not 1.

...can we write kernal for os in java
like in c we can write but can we in java ?

No. What would the JRE execute on?

[naved momin]

Bear Bibeault wrote:

hi thanks for the reply that means my teacher was wrong she said we dont need jre to run java programs ....

Yes, a JRE is required.

and 1 more thing

"one", not 1.

...can we write kernal for os in java
like in c we can write but can we in java ?

No. What would the JRE execute on?

if you are asking me , i didnt get your point can you elaborate please

[Bear Bibeault]

The point is that a JRE is needed to run Java. So it cannot be realistically used to write an OS kernel.

[Jesper de Jong]

There have been some processors in the past (I think one of them was named PicoJava) which could run Java bytecode natively. When you'd have that, you would not need a software JVM to run Java - the processor would run the bytecode directly. However, that never became a big success. There have also been attempts to write an operating system in Java. These had to have some part in native code for the JRE, so it's not pure Java.

But the point is that Java was never meant to be a low-level systems programming language, so even though you could write an OS in mostly pure Java, it would probably not be a really good idea.