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The Execution Environment

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We have said that the JVM operates on the stream of bytecode as an interpreter. This means that it processes bytecode while the program is running and converts it to real machine code that it executes on the fly. You can think of a computer program as being like a railroad track, with the train … Read more

The Development Environment

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Once you have installed the Java 2 SDK, you can start creating Java source code and compiling it. Java is like any other high-level programming language, in that you write the source code in an English-like form. The source code then has to be converted into a form that the machine can understand before it … Read more