Overall, Java class loaders are a critical component of the JVM that enables Java programs to load and execute classes dynamically at runtime. Types of class loaders I’ve given an overview of ...

A software program needs to execute, and to do that, it needs an environment to run in. In the past, most software used the operating system (OS) as the runtime environment.

Software such as Java Plug-in and Java Web Start programs use JNLP files to run. Because JNLP files are program-specific, your computer may not properly recognize JNLP files to execute them using ...

JEP 458, Launch Multi-File Source-Code Programs, has been Closed/Delivered for JDK 22. This JEP proposes to enhance the Java Launcher to execute an application supplied as one or more files of Java so ...

With typical, standalone Java programs, developer must compile source code into bytecode with the javac utility, and then run that bytecode on the JVM. That’s not necessary with JShell. JShell reads ...

Over the past 20 years, a number of different formats have emerged for packaging Java programs. But as cloud-native computing flips the model for deploying Java web apps on its head and Docker ...