[Dimitri] sent in a project he’s been working on that implements a Java Virtual Machine purely in C ... first covers why he wanted to run Java bytecode on a microcontroller.

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 ...

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 ...

Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...