The Java virtual machine (JVM) is a program whose sole purpose is to execute other programs. This simple idea has made Java one of the most successful and long-lived platforms of all time.

You might have heard of Java, but do you really understand the significance of a Java Virtual Machine?

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 ...

For Java developers, there are clearly a number of similarities in the ActionScript syntax and virtual machine architecture that should ease the learning process.

[Dimitri] sent in a project he’s been working on that implements a Java Virtual Machine purely in C, and is easily portable between microcontrollers such as the AVRs and PICs we normally see ...

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 ...

With Java 9, support for parallel execution on HSA-compatible processors will be native, Rogers said in an interview following the presentation.