The new architecture is planned for inclusion in the upcoming beta of what is now being referred to as Java SE 6 Update N, due in December.

Java is simple and familiar. Java is object-oriented. Java is architecture-neutral. Java is robust and secure. Java is multithreaded. Java is capable of high performance. Java is statically typed and ...

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is an abstraction layer that makes it possible for Java programs to be cross-platform. The fact that the JVM is architecture neutral is a huge advantage of Java, but ...

The document is written assuming that the architecture of the computer is big endian, and so an x86 implementation needs to byte-swap every 512 bit block before it is processed.

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