Java still holds a large majority, with 86.9% of developers saying they use it as their main programming language for building JVM applications, compared to 5.5% with Kotlin.

The JVM becomes the hub for all the Java apps running on a machine or device. So the JVM largely relieves the software developer of the burden of worrying about programming security “bugs”.

GraalVM has released major version 21.0 with a new component, Java on Truffle, that provides a JVM implementation written in Java. GraalVM is itself a polyglot virtual machine that provides a shared r ...

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

Once Java code is compiled into JVM bytecode, the bytecode then runs according to the JVM. The JVM then passes the actual processing work to the processor in its own language.

Microsoft had its own Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for several years, but terminated support at the end of 2007. See applet, HotSpot JVM, Java, Java Runtime Environment, bytecode and intermediate ...

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 ...

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

Live Objects on the Java heap Along with the initial automated analysis, Java Mission Control will provide a list indicating the size of all active items on the heap, along with a list of all live ...

Java 25 has 17 new features, six of which are at some level of preview. It also removes support for 32-bit x86, with the team ...