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 ...

contends that the bytecode verifier featured in Java 7 is a huge step backward for the Java virtual machine. “The feature’s supposed to increase the speed of your Java program, but it does the ...

Below this however is Dalvik, Google’s own virtual machine that compiles Java applications into Dalvik bytecode rather than Java bytecode. In the fight for total application development ...