Question about Java

[Doodoo]

Here i am at 4 am studyin for a midterm...got two questions...Why is Java considered a platform and not just a language...and what exactly is the Java Virtual Machine and what does it do? Thanks

 

[wu1chef]

The answer is in your book maybe.

 

1) It is a platform because it runs on any platform
2) The VM is a virtual platform. See answer #1

Java also supports recursion.

 

[StageLeft]

No offence intended but if its 4am and you're cramming for a Java midterm and you don't even know the answers to those questions then I think you are doomed to fail! Goodluck

 

[andri]

Java code is compiled into a `bytecode´, similar to something like .exe's. It's a platform because JVM, the Java Virtual Machine that actually executes the bytecode, can and has been implemented in hardware. Also, the Java bytecode is sub-JVM-platform independent, a great plus.

 

[Batti]

wu1chef, what's that sig all about?

 

[M]

Read.