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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 ...

Despite their shared names, the Java virtual machine has no notion of the Java programming language, but exclusively processes bytecode instructions.

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 ...

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 ...

BEA Systems has come up with its own microkernel OS that promises to boost Java performance and give it mission-critical and real-time credentials.

A highly critical vulnerability in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java plug-in has been discovered by a Finnish security consultant. The vulnerability could potentially allow a Web page to turn off Java ...

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

Aion Network, a nonprofit dedicated to creating tools to promote blockchain technologies, announced a new virtual machine today that's built on top of the ...

This marks the first blockchain virtual machine available to Java developers. The Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) is not a modification or rewrite of the underlying JVM, but a supplementary software ...