Difference between JVM and JRE

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Amit Jain - 04 Oct 2007 03:47 GMT

what is difference between JVM and JRE

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Stefan Ram - 04 Oct 2007 03:57 GMT

>what is difference between JVM and JRE

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5187984&start=0&tstart=0
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5190650&messageID=9747003
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=688750&messageID=4006631
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=583643&messageID=2984290

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xen - 04 Oct 2007 05:41 GMT

>what is difference between JVM and JRE

JVM is by definition an abstract machine and the JRE is the software
that implements it. But JVM commonly also refers to an implementation,
ie. "starting a Java application takes some time because the VM needs
to get loaded first".

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Roedy Green - 04 Oct 2007 09:10 GMT

>what is difference between JVM and JRE

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jvm.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jre.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html

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