Is the JVM is platform independent or dependent?
Ans: JVM is platform
dependent.
What is JVM and how its converts
byte code into machine code?
·JVM is Software from Sun that
converts a program in Java from byte code (intermediate language) into machine
language and executes it. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the runtime engine
of the Java Platform, which allows any program written in Java or other
language compiled into Java byte code to run on any computer that has a native
JVM. JVMs run in both clients and servers, and the Web browser can activate the
JVM when it encounters a Java applet.
·The JVM includes a just-in-time
(JIT) compiler that converts the byte code into machine language so that it
runs as fast as a native executable. The compiled program can be cached in the
computer for reuse.
·JVM
is an interpreter and it converts .class (dot class) file code into operating
system code.
·JVM
converts .class file code line by line and executes line by line.
·If
1st line of .class file code is converted into operating system code
then it is executed at that time.
·Similarly
for second, third and fourh …………… nth lines its process should be the same.
