Software from Oracle that converts a program in Java bytecode (intermediate language) into machine language and executes it. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the runtime engine of the Java ...

to compile into Java bytecode and execute using the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). As a result, the Java platform as it exists today includes not only Java, but a variety of other peripheral ...

Java is cross platform because a program's source code is compiled into an intermediate "bytecode" language. The bytecode is then executed by a Java Virtual Machine (Java interpreter) that was ...